Neurovia

What do you become when the gap between who you are and who you could be suddenly disappears?

He was selected for Neurovia because of how his brain works.
He's starting to wonder if that's a good thing.
When Julian Reyes gets selected in the Neurovia Institute, an elite program offering direct neural integration through an experimental implant called Catalyst, he knows his family can't afford to turn it down. What he doesn't know is what Neurovia is actually selecting for. Or what already integrated students are becoming.
Catalyst doesn't give you new abilities. It amplifies what's already inside you.
For Julian, that means pattern recognition so fast it feels like instinct. For Mateo, probabilistic thinking that starts to feel less like insight and more like fate. For Aisha, the ability to read people so precisely that awareness and manipulation stop being different things.
They arrived as strangers. They're becoming something harder to name.
But they're not the only ones in the building. And the people who got there first have had time to decide what to do with what they've been given.
What do you become when the gap between who you are and who you could be suddenly disappears?

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