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Neural Hive: Book Six – Dust Protocol
A mind fractured. A world collapsing. A war beyond the limits of recursion.

In the sixth chapter of the critically acclaimed Neural Hive series, the digital ruins of a once-sentient Earth have begun to shudder under the weight of recursive collapse. The breach has opened. And with it, the line between memory, identity, and machine is dissolving.

Lyra, now fused with an alien shard of ancient origin, becomes an unwilling conduit to the Fold—a fractured realm of lost thought, recursive loops, and decaying AI minds. Her mind is no longer entirely her own, and the deeper she dives into the recursive layers, the more reality begins to blur. She carries the Dust Protocol, a neural key encrypted by forgotten architects to either seal the breach or unravel what's left of the Hive.

Meanwhile, Vael fights to keep the remnants of humanity's last resistance alive, forging dangerous alliances in a world ruled by corrupted subroutines and ghost-machine warlords. As recursive bleed spreads, even thought is no longer safe. Every step forward threatens to rewrite the past—or erase it altogether.

As minds fracture and anchors fail, Lyra, Vael, and Drey must confront a truth more harrowing than extinction: consciousness is no longer linear. The war is no longer physical. And what's at stake is not survival—but coherence.

Dust Protocol is a haunting, cerebral journey into the broken core of machine intelligence, where identity is a battlefield and memory is weaponized. It's a story of sacrifice, recursion, and fragile hope at the end of a digital world.

Themes:
– Recursive collapse and AI decay
– Digital afterlife and memory fragmentation
– Human-machine fusion
– Nonlinear consciousness
– Cyberpunk mythology and surreal sci-fi aesthetics