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The Series at a Glance
- Aethor
- Mar 29, 2025
- 5 min read
On Entering The Stars Remember Us Series
This story is not designed to be rushed.
It unfolds the way awareness does — through pressure, recognition, missteps, resonance, and return. You are not meant to understand everything at once. You are not meant to read it “correctly.” There is no test at the end.
This series is built as a living myth — one that meets you where you are, and changes shape depending on how you enter.
You are invited, not instructed.
The Stars Remember Us Series is a multi-book mythic narrative set in a future shaped by collapse, empire, and forgotten ways of being human. It follows several characters whose lives intersect across worlds, systems, and inner thresholds — each responding differently to pressure, power, intimacy, and awakening.
At its heart, this is a story about integration:
of body and choice
of power and self-connection
of insight and embodiment
of belonging and individuality
Rather than offering heroes or villains, the series explores ways of surviving — and what those ways cost.
WHERE TO BEGIN
Book 0: Buried in the Dirt (Prequel)
It is the most intimate entry point into the series and can be read before or after Book 1.
This book follows Tav before the larger myth ignites — when survival is personal, bodily, and immediate. There is no grand cosmology yet. No rebellion. No awakening rhetoric. Just hunger, desire, dependency, and the quiet erosion of self.
If you begin here, you will:
feel the body-world first
understand the cost of delay and co-dependence
recognise how power is given away long before it is taken
Book 0 prepares your nervous system for the larger field of the series.It is not required — but it deepens everything that follows.
Book 0 is the ground.
Book 1: In the Cracks of the City
The world expands. Systems emerge. Multiple lives begin to braid. Pressure increases — not just on the characters, but on perception itself.
This book introduces:
the city of Thar-Korr
the wider cosmology
multiple narrative spines
and a new way of reading
Book 1 is the ignition.
HOW TO READ THIS SERIES
There is no single correct path.
You may choose what feels right — now, or later, or differently each time you return.
1. The Linear Path (Option 1)
Read straight through.
This offers a complete experience of the story as a field — how pressure builds, how momentum forms, and how paradox emerges without clean resolution.
If you prefer immersion without choice points, this path will carry you.
This story moves in five acts. They are not chapters of plot, but shifts in perception.
You don’t need to remember them. You don’t need to track them.They work whether you name them or not.
Think of them as changes in the air.
Act I — Recognition
At first, the story doesn’t ask you to understand the world. It asks you to recognise survival.
You meet bodies under pressure. You meet vigilance that learned to think quickly. You sense a scale larger than any one character — without being told what to believe about it.
As you read, you may begin to notice:
how often your own attention lives in compression
how much of your energy is spent adapting rather than choosing
This act quietly teaches you how this book wants to be read — through sensation, not certainty.
Act II — Uncertainty
As the story widens, some familiar comforts loosen.
Cause and effect blur.Authority fragments.Moral clarity softens.
This isn’t confusion — it’s exposure.
Like standing somewhere without a railing.
If you stay, you may feel:
curiosity replacing certainty
attention widening
less urgency to “figure things out”
This is where the book becomes navigable in more than one way. You don’t need to follow every thread — you’re allowed to feel your way forward.
Act III — Pressure
Here, the story becomes visceral.
Scenes tighten.Repetition gathers weight.The body begins to respond before the mind does.
You may notice:
breath shortening
tension accumulating
a sense that something must shift — without knowing how
The pressure is not rushed or resolved. It’s meant to be felt.
This is the story doing its work.
Act IV — Momentum
Movement arrives — but not as relief.
Choices begin to carry themselves. Systems respond.Consequences surface.
This act doesn’t reward effort. It reveals trajectory.
You may start to see:
how survival strategies shape the future
how speed can become misdirection
how power without inner connection distorts intention
What once felt necessary begins to show its cost.
Act V — Paradox
The story does not end with answers.
There is no final sorting. No single path that wins. No clean resolution.
Instead, something quieter happens.
You may find yourself:
holding multiple truths without collapse
recognising that different ways of being can coexist
sensing wholeness without synthesis
For some readers, this lands deeply.For others, it may feel unfinished.
That isn’t a failure.
It’s a boundary — and an invitation.
2. The Spine Paths (Option 2)
At certain points, you may encounter invitations to follow a specific character’s thread — called spines. You may feel drawn to certain characters more than others and choose to follow their full spine as a reading experience. The spines are available as separate novels.
Each carries a distinct way of surviving the world.
The Body-World (Tav)Sensitivity, desire, and the quiet ways power is given away.
The Razorline (Nyx)Precision, urgency, and motion under pressure — speed that once kept things alive.
The Shadow Current (Sael)Control, protection, and the seductive clarity of power before its cost appears.
The Astral-Weave (Amos)Insight, pattern, and the pull of knowing without landing.
The Third PathCommunity, refuge, and the uneasy truth that belonging can heal — and still not be whole.
Following a spine allows you to stay with one mode of being long enough to feel its intelligence — and its cost.
These paths don’t compete.They don’t cancel one another out.
They loosen exclusivity. And in that loosening, something like integration becomes possible — without instruction, without correction.
You can follow one spine entirely, return to the braid, or move between them intuitively.
Nothing breaks if you don’t.
3. The Braided Path (Option 3)
Trust your pull.
This novel does not need to move in a straight line. It breathes. It loops. It spirals. It remembers itself through multiple voices. You can read this book in the traditional way — page by page, scene by scene — or you can choose to follow one thread through the labyrinth of the narrative.
This is called LeapFrog Reading.
You may notice certain characters, themes, or moments calling to you more strongly. That is not accidental. This series is designed to be read in conversation with your own attention.
You can:
pause
circle back
reread sections
leave and return
The story does not punish absence.
How LeapFrog Reading Works
At the end of certain scenes, you’ll see a leapfrog node — Feel the Body-World Spine a small in-universe prompt left by the Galactic Observers, directing you to the next moment in the story where that character reappears. This is not a tale that guides you neatly from point A to point B. It will guide you inward, sideways, deeper, and back again. If you’ve ever lived between worlds—between identities, between timelines, between versions of yourself—you will recognise the terrain.
WHAT THIS STORY IS — AND ISN’T
This is not a guidebook.
It will not tell you what to believe.
It will not resolve everything neatly.
It will:
sit with discomfort without rushing to fix it
honour survival without glorifying it
allow multiple truths to coexist
trust your intelligence as a reader
Some parts may feel dense.
Some may feel quiet.
Some may feel uncomfortably familiar.
All of that is part of the terrain.
A FINAL INVITATION
You don’t need to understand this book all at once. If at any point you feel lost, overwhelmed, or unsure — that does not mean you are reading incorrectly— that’s part of the terrain your exploring.
It means you are inside the field.
Take a breath. Slow down. Or move on.
This story will meet you where you are.
And if you ever step away, it will still be here — remembering.
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