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Lyra “Echo” Chen
Once a dedicated data engineer at AeonTek, Lyra “Echo” Chen’s life was marked by ambition, then shattered by the ruthless memory-wiping process that AeonTek imposed on its employees. When a glitch during a memory wipe allowed Lyra to experience fragments of past lives, her identity began to unravel. Pieces of memories—of love lost, laughter shared, and conversations with strange yet familiar people—flooded her consciousness, igniting a need to reclaim her true self.
As she fought against the oppressive system of AeonTek, Lyra found a hidden truth: she was not the only one trapped in this cycle. Others, too, had been subjected to the same mind-altering process, their pasts erased and rewritten. In time, Lyra became the first to hack into the Interface, the neural network controlling memories. No longer an invisible cog in AeonTek’s machine, she now posed a direct threat to the company.
Yet, Lyra’s struggle is deeply personal. As fragments of her past selves collide, she question