In an alternate timeline, lifespan is transferable property—measurable, contractible, inheritable. The rich buy decades from the poor; charities operate Time Banks to keep children and the sick alive; and governments treat human years as a...

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Knot Station roars: scan gates flash VERIFY as a line of commuters funnels into a bottleneck; time ads promise ‘stability plans’ in months. ChronoPolice rolls in for a ‘routine’ TimeID sweep. Riva’s unit locks the gates. A forged scan pings red; the crowd surges. A man collapses mid-queue, gasping—his wristband reads single-digit weeks. Tessa shoves through bodies with a kit and a voice that cuts through panic. A portable scanner chirps: ‘INSUFFICIENT BASELINE.’ The officer treats it like a violation, not an emergency. Tessa has to argue for air.

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Lydon

In Lydon, lifespan is property, traded and enforced through a system where legitimacy is tracked by chronal signatures, but counterfeit years have triggered a reality-warping crisis as the universe enforces conservation of lived time.
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    Mid 40s, wiry with restless hands; rumpled layers, sleepless eyes, pockets full of scribbled equations. Fast, technical, darkly funny; spirals into metaphors when scared.

  • Inez Bako

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    Early 30s, expressive face and steady eyes; utilitarian clothes, always carrying a battered messenger bag. Direct, vivid, grounded; uses street metaphors and concrete examples.

  • Director Halden Voss

    head of ChronoPolice, architect of ‘stability doctrine’

    Mid 50s, immaculate uniform, calm eyes; stands unnervingly still when others fidget. Quiet, authoritative, paternal; speaks in outcomes and thresholds.

  • Lucien Marr

    Yearmint’s public savior and master of narrative

    Early 40s, flawless grooming; tailored suits; camera-ready warmth that never reaches his eyes. Smooth, empathetic, rhetorical; turns questions into reassurance.

  • Registrar Celeste Primm

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