WE WAKE IN EACH OTHER

Commander Ares-17 captures memory-smuggler Silas Quill hours before the clone army’s nightly update. When Silas hides his consciousness inside the Marshal, each man wakes in the other’s body—and their first coordinated command makes every clone lower its weapon. Voluntary shared control can erase Dominion orders, but each use blends a memory until neither knows who lived it first. Inside the orbital dream vault, they uncover thousands of Ares bodies and the divided human life from which both men were made.

A clone marshal wakes inside the rebel he must execute, and each willingly shared body erases another command from an army waiting to obey.