THE PRISON PLANET GROWS A DOOR IN HIS CHEST

Dr. Sena Ward escapes execution on Kharon, a living prison planet that learns every fugitive’s nervous rhythm and rebuilds its terrain to defeat them. The only path it cannot classify begins as a violet doorway between the chest plates of Warden Rhex Tal. Each voluntary synchronization grows another corridor but steals a bodily sense. When they find an entire city of prisoners hidden inside the planetary core, escape becomes a choice between orbit and liberation.

A condemned scientist discovers the alien warden’s chest is growing an escape route, but every new doorway teaches the living prison how to hunt them.