Dream Origins: Volume One: The Vessel of The Fade (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798280810792)

"Some dreams warn you. Some dreams wait. And one... one always watches."

Thalen Ferren doesn't dream the way others do. His dreams are layered, recursive-places stitched together from memories that never happened and names he's never spoken aloud. When a shimmering ripple appears in the hallway of his childhood home, it marks the beginning of a journey he won't be able to wake from.

As dreams bleed into waking life, Thalen is drawn deeper into the Fade-a dream realm built from fragments of lost places and forgotten selves. Guided by cryptic memories, black-and-white cats that always seem to know more than they should, and a boy with eyes that remember him too well, Thalen must navigate haunted reflections, recursive stairwells, and veils of memory that breathe.

But the Fade is not just a dream.

It remembers.

And it's been waiting.

With each step, Thalen is forced to confront the shifting architecture of his past-houses that know his name, corridors that echo his forgotten fears, and a Spiral that spins behind the veil of every reality he's ever known. Something has chosen him. Something ancient. Something unfinished.

In this deeply introspective and emotionally layered opening to the Dream Origins series, Volume One: The Vessel of The Fade explores the power of memory, the ache of forgotten identity, and the threads that connect all the versions of ourselves we've left behind.