"This is not a story about how humanity lost to the dead. This is a story about how humanity lost its monopoly on intelligence, hierarchy, and cruelty."
The White Heat Changed Everything
It wasn't a bomb or a war. It started as a temperature. The White Heat swept across the globe, opening a dormant neural channel in the brain: the Receptor.
If your Receptor opened into emptiness, you became a Shell — a mindless, aggressive biological machine. The meat noise of the world. But if your Receptor found an animal host nearby, you became Bonded. You kept your intellect and memory, but gained the physical and behavioral traits of the beast.
Now, humanity is no longer the apex predator. Predator factions — lion-bonded aristocrats, wolf-bonded military syndicates, and llama-bonded trade lords — carve the desert into kingdoms of instinct and etiquette. A cat-bonded courier navigates between them — until he chooses a boy and a cat over an empire. And discovers his 100-pound cat has been quietly negotiating with the dead for two years.
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TROTILLIONS
Book 1 of the Trotillions Trilogy. Welcome to the Dead Lands, where your domain right is only as strong as your teeth.
About the Author
StViga (Yurii Kalashnik) is a writer and worldbuilder based in Kyiv, Ukraine. The Trotillions universe was literally born from a dream about what happens when humanity is no longer the only species capable of building complex societies. It's a post-apocalyptic world where survival requires more than just bullets — it requires understanding the aesthetic, the ritual, and the biological truth of the new predators.