a philosophical fantasy about the forces that make us and the light we forget we're carrying.
it begins at dawn, in the hour of cochineal pink — the rose that comes from death turned into beauty. in a hidden valley where three mountains meet, a boy whose eyes hold universes is about to complete a ritual of transformation.
but something breaks.
the energy fractures, and into the absence flows zahama — the darkness before dawn. not destruction: the emptiness from which creation becomes possible. the boy walks out whole, but not complete — carrying both the power and the dark.
years later, the fracture starts to spread. and four forces wake. not the four horsemen of the apocalypse and destruction. the four horsemen of creation.
raw creative chaos, magnificently indifferent — transforming everything it touches. (it also, once, becomes an interdimensional cookie monster. you'll see.)
the cosmic rabbit who traces the paths between what is and what could be — and makes room for each being to find its own way.
the ancient keeper of truth — who has lost the ability to see the sparkles, the flickers of potential in the eyes of living things.
the boy from the broken ritual, now in budapest, holding creation and destruction in a single, fragile balance.
set between the italian alps and budapest — a city split by its river, then joined by will. fantasy adventure and inner journey at once.
the story stands on its own: the alps, the fracture, four forces waking. but underneath it, first page to last, runs a single question — what would you be, if you hadn't forgotten. it's the same question this whole company is built on.
i shaped the idea, the characters, the story, and the art direction, and worked with ai to write, edit, and illustrate — reviewing and approving every word, and taking full responsibility for all of it. amplified by ai, never abandoned to it.
the idea came in the summer of 2024, after meeting someone who kept saying the same thing — there's really infinite love out there — and who became the book's protagonist. once you understand it, you understand that the energy that lights our spark never runs out: you only have to notice it, and work so it flows again. i wrote it in a handful of weeks, and it's my debut — as an author, or co-author: human + ai. the rest of that story lives in the creator's journey.
alessandro facchini, author
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