Transfer Hall

In the near future, death is not avoided. It is extended.

Cerebrix has perfected a destructive neural transfer process called virtualization. The biological brain is destroyed during scan. No copy remains. A single continuity persists forward.

The world calls them preserved.

Jake Rivers becomes the first public conversion.

He is stable. Screened. Ideal. The kind of person the system was designed to protect.

For a time, it works.

Then something changes.

As Jake’s preserved mind begins to fracture under the weight of perfect memory, the institution that promised continuity must decide what survival really means.

The system does not malfunction.

It functions.

And that may be worse.