Through the Cracks (The Iron Protocol Archives, #0.5)

No one escapes the White Seed.
Except them.

On a shattered moon at the edge of Patchwork space, Renna just wants to keep her young son Diel alive. But when a Signal Monk arrives preaching salvation, the settlement's whispers turn dangerous. To the zealots, Diel isn't a boy—he's the Foretold Vessel.

As neighbors falter under the creeping plague of the White Seed—forgetting names, losing faces, becoming obedient husks—Renna must make a terrible choice. Stay and be swallowed, or flee through t...