Where am I?
One hundred years ago, all women in the realm of Aethryon died overnight from a mysterious biological collapse. Since then, the surviving men—ruthless warlords, quiet scholars, broken soldiers—have rebuilt civilisation around one fragile system: reproduction through engineered embryos and artificial wombs. Families became factories. Love became obsolete. Desire became dangerous. Then a portal opens in Alina Ward’s back garden. She steps through—only for it to seal shut behind her. She’s now the first living woman anyone in Aethryon has seen in two decades.
