An Epidemic of Feeling: The World Began to Hurt

Tomás measures dying coral in the Pacific. Segundo works a factory line until a chest pain with no clinical cause starts syncing with things it shouldn't: loud sounds, harsh light, living matter. Antonia guards a data node that refused to update. And all over the world, more and more people are discovering the same thing: the planet's damage no longer arrives as reports. It arrives as pain. As cases multiply, the Aeterna corporation offers the only way out - a drug that switches the symptom off. It doesn't ask what causes it. It can't afford to. Now each of them faces the same choice at a different scale: stop feeling and keep functioning, or accept that the pain is information - and that someone is deeply invested in silencing it. A novel about the moment the boundary between body and world stops existing. The epidemic doesn't spread. It wakes up.