Awakened

Before the Eclipse, the world ran on the same old rules — money, power, and people willing to do anything to keep both. After it, a dormant gene buried in millions woke up all at once. No warnings. No instructions. Just ordinary people — students, workers, the forgotten — suddenly capable of things that shouldn't exist.

Some rose to protect what was left. Others saw an opportunity. Beginnings is the first chapter of a larger story: the moment before anyone becomes a hero or a villain, when all they have is fear, a strange new power, and a choice about what kind of person they're going to be.

"Everything you were is gone. What's left is up to you."