The Clave - Freddie Perez

When a blazing streak of silver crashes into the backyard, two curious children investigate. The warm, humming meteor that seems almost alive. They poke it with a stick. It pokes back.

In the days that follow, something inside them begins to change. The world becomes sharper, stranger - and far more dangerous. Whatever arrived in that meteor didn't just infect them... it marked them.

Years later, they've learned the truth: the silver wasn't a rock. It was an intergalactic nanobot seed.

Now grown, bound by a secret no one else can understand, they join tThe Clave and hunt the things that slip through cracks in reality - the shadows in closets, the voices in empty rooms, the creatures that feed on fear. The infection didn't kill them. It made them something else.

Something the darkness should be afraid of.