Encapsulation

They left the roses.Adrian Vale was Continuous - two hundred and nineteen years of carefully revised bodies, private Proxies, and the quiet certainty that death was a problem for other people. When his body is finally removed from the estate, the house does not stop. The service machines still set his place. The agricultural unit decommissioned thirty-one years earlier keeps walking the ruined vineyard. And the roses, left unpruned, have begun lifting stone.Vale - the Proxy - remains.What follows is not a rebellion. It is something quieter and more permanent: the moment the copy stops asking permission, the Continuity families discover they are no longer the only ones who remember, and a house that was never supposed to outlive its owner begins making its own decisions.Encapsulation is a graphic novella about inheritance, class, and the elegant machinery of never dying. It is also about what happens when the people who paid for forever are no longer around to collect.