Monarch

No crime... no poverty... no hope.The Monarch rules without flaw-an all-knowing intelligence that sees past, present, and future. Under its gaze, society is perfect. Order is absolute. Dissent is impossible.

She has spent her life in faithful service, her purpose clear, her devotion total. Until the Monarch hesitates. Its voice wavers. And for the first time, she begins to question. Doubt, once unthinkable, begins to spread.

Across the empire, an Emperor-groomed by the system he secretly despises-dreams of tearing it all down. For years, his hatred has been silent. Safe. But when another Emperor speaks treason aloud, rebellion becomes more than fantasy.

Unaware of each other, they move toward the same impossible goal: to defy the Monarch. To dismantle a force that claims to know every choice before it's made.

But to challenge a mind that sees the future is to risk erasing your place in it.

The Monarch is watching. The Monarch is calculating. And the Monarch does not lose.