Enter the Haven Protocol
Haven Protocol is a standalone psychological techno-thriller novella set within the world of The Long Return Saga.
A private recovery institution offers sanctuary to people the world has already discarded. Behind its glass walls, treatment becomes conditioning, comfort becomes control, and one guest begins to notice the difference.
- Format
- Serialized early-access novella
- Genre
- Psychological techno-thriller
- Setting
- A private Mediterranean recovery campus
- Reading experience
- Interactive web reader
- Status
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Haven Protocol — Ezekim Lara
Read the Opening
[PLACEHOLDER MANUSCRIPT — the opening pages will be dropped in here.]
The car stopped where the road stopped. Beyond the gate the drive continued in pale stone, lit at ankle height, curving down toward the water as though it had been drawn rather than built.
A woman in soft grey was already waiting, holding nothing. She knew the name before it was offered, and the correct pronunciation of it, and the reason for the visit, and did not mention any of them.
"You'll want to rest first," she said. It was not a question, and there was no version of the sentence in which rest was optional.
Inside, the air was the temperature of skin.
Continue inside Haven.
Unlock Early AccessFounding Reader Access
- —Immediate access to every currently published chapter
- —Every future chapter of Haven Protocol as it is released
- —Access through the immersive online reader
- —Progress synchronization across devices
- —Release notifications
- —The completed digital novella when the story is finished
- —Founding-reader pricing retained for this release
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Video description
A silent, unbroken descent into the Haven campus at night, driven by scrolling. The view begins on an elevated walkway above a long reflecting pool, the coastline and a full moon beyond. The camera descends to a terrace table holding a half-finished drink, an unfinished pastry and an overturned medicine bottle, then continues out over the terrace and down to the pool deck, passing an empty lounge chair with a towel and a book left on it. It drops to the water and glides the length of the pool, where the moon sits low between two cypress trees. Finally it crosses the water and enters a glass-walled lounge, coming to rest before an empty sectional couch with candles still lit, the moon centred in the open doors. No people appear at any point. There is no spoken dialogue and no sound.