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What would you sacrifice for a world without pain? Your memories? Your past? Your very soul?

In a forgotten mill turned sanctuary, a revolutionary breakthrough promises to end human suffering forever. The followers of the Final Page call it salvation. They can edit your mind, cutting out trauma, grief, and fear like a surgeon removes a cancer. The result is perfect, blissful silence.

Silas is a devoted believer. As an acolyte, it's his job to hold the patient's hand while his master, the brilliant and enigmatic Alban, performs the sacred procedure. He looks into their eyes as their most painful memories are scraped away and tells them it's for the best.

But during one routine editing, a man pleads for the memory of his daughter's song. And for the first time, a treacherous thought echoes in Silas's mind: What if this is not healing, but murder?

His moment of doubt does not go unnoticed.

Instead of punishment, Alban offers him a sacred, terrifying promotion. To truly understand the enemy—human emotion—Silas must face it himself. He is ordered to inject a potent serum called the Scarlet Ink, the distilled essence of a thousand harvested souls. It contains their rawest terror, their most violent ecstasy, their deepest love.

He will drown in the feelings he was trained to destroy.

The experience shatters him. He is flooded with the memories of others—a childhood terror, a lover's violent kiss, a mother's bottomless grief. The chaos is a waking nightmare.

And a part of him loves it.

Now, Silas is broken, enlightened, and more valuable than ever. Alban reveals his true purpose: Silas's unique connection to the chaos makes him the perfect catalyst for the Final Protocol, the ultimate ritual that will rewrite humanity itself. He will no longer comfort the victims.

He will hold the knife.

Trapped between the serene, monstrous certainty of Alban's silent heaven and the beautiful, terrifying chaos of a feeling world, Silas must make a choice that will break reality. To save the ghosts of the people he helped destroy, he must become the monster that destroys the world.

The Grafting is a relentless, heart-pounding descent into psychological and body horror that will scar your imagination. For readers of Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation and the visceral nightmares of Clive Barker, this is a story that doesn't just ask what it means to be human—it dissects the question with a bone-handled knife.

You will never be the same again.

Read it if you dare.

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