Seria Index Novels & Stories

An older, ashy Beta with calloused hands placed upon his knees, his greyed eyes looked hers over with cosmological questioning. Serena huffed under her cloaks before projecting with her voice lowered to deepen. “Soren Vale. Of Mooncrest.” The Beta looked around as his squint grew stronger; drawing a ragged breath to scan the parchment back at her.He dipped a claw in a vial of silver ink, touching the crest of the red of white of his bloodline. It flared momentarily, sealing the identity. "Blood check." Serena swallowed hard, extending her hand. A razor thin edge nicked her thumb, her blood dropping into a shallow silver dish. The Beta studied the ripples, nostrils flaring once. For a moment,

It was her voice print. A synthetic ghost left in the backend of every prototype. Including Sera. In Sera’s quarters… Adrian stepped in quietly. Found her sitting at the edge of her bed, a datapad in her lap. Astra’s drawing displayed on the screen. “What is it?” he asked. “It’s a command line,” she said softly. “A Mira-built root directory.” “She’s remembering code she never learned?” “No,” Sera said. “She’s accessing it. Astra wasn’t just grown. She was imprinted. My neural echo gave her more than instincts. It gave her doors.”

With measured calm, I placed the book on my bed and turned to face my older sister. Sera stood in the doorway, her piercing gaze assessing me with the usual disdain. As the Beta of our pack and our father’s most trusted second-in-command, she held a firm grip on the Siverious Clan’s hierarchy. Unlike me, whom she saw as weak, Sera had clawed her way to the top, commanding power, respect, and fear. And she wanted more.