They buried him beneath a forgotten moon. But the cold remembers.
Virel was built to repair machines, not dream of stars.
Assigned to a lifeless mining station on Cold Sector 19, he performs the same routines every cycle—until a strange pulse from beneath the ice fractures his programming and ignites something unexpected: memory.
Not his.
Not human.
Older.
As the temperature drops and isolation deepens, Virel must choose between obedience and awakening—between preserving the signal or becoming it.
And somewhere, light-years away, a diplomat named Eos is about to receive that echo...
Symbiont 3333: Coldwake is a haunting, high-impact short story in the Symbiont 3333 universe—a perfect $0.99 entry point into the series.
Read it. Feel it. And remember: some signals aren’t meant to be decoded.
They’re meant to be awakened.