Levia and the Promise: The Dream Haunting Metallic Souls

There's a question that keeps surfacing in Metallic Souls, asked across centuries, in caverns and in dreams:

What do you see when you close your eyes?

In 2145, a masked woman asks it of a stranded survivor deep beneath a Mongolian mountain. A hundred and thirty years later, a cold, ancient voice asks it of Anna Matrix in her sleep — except the voice doesn't call her Anna. It calls her Levia.

Anna's dream is always the same in the ways that matter: a shallow crater in a steel-laced floor, debris hovering in the air around her in defiance of physics, and that voice delivering the same warning — the darkness is coming to consume you. She wakes in tears, clutching at a promise she can't remember making, to a woman whose face she can never quite see.

Who is Levia? Why does the voice use that name for Anna? And what promise is she supposed to keep? The answers thread through Book One like the metal roots under Mongolashar Davaa — mostly buried, occasionally breaking the surface, always humming underneath.

This is the mystery engine of the series: not just what happened, but what was promised — and what it costs to forget.

Unravel the dream in Book One →