PORTAL CITY – ORIGINS

In an ancient land where teleportation was born from breath and memory, a fracture threatens to erase everything sacred. When a forgotten signal ignites the Thirteenth Ring—a path sealed for generations—young flamebearer Taya is thrust into a breach that could unravel the ancestral Pulse itself.

As dreamwalkers stir, echoes scream, and the land holds its breath, Taya must choose: flee with the Council... or anchor the fire with her very soul.

Before there was a Grid, there was the Pulse. And before Raeven walked the city... Taya walked the fire.

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Beneath the neon bones of Portal City, thirteen-year-old Raeven Virek uncovers a mystery hidden deep within the Grid—a discovery that threatens to unravel not just secrets, but the nature of memory itself.

As echoes from the past awaken and voices long forgotten begin to stir, three lives—Raeven, her estranged sister Kieris, and the watchful Grid technician Dieter Solin—are pulled into a recursive storm of identity, guilt, and something far stranger than anyone imagined.

Before the Jump is a haunting and atmospheric prelude to the Portal City trilogy, blending sci-fi mystery with emotional depth. It explores the fragile boundary between technology and consciousness—and what happens when that boundary breaks.

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