Those Stars in Her Eyes is part of the Monster(S) universe by Sam Lacoste.
Stories should be read in order. This is story #2.
Nyx was raised to admire heroes.
From deep inside the Octopus corridors, she watches the final battle of a brutal war unfold across live holo-screens, waiting for her brothers and sisters to come home victorious. The Apexes are not just legends to her. They are her family. Engineered weapons to the world, but to Nyx, they are the only people who have ever made life inside the machine feel human.
Victory comes at a cost no one is willing to speak aloud.
As the survivors return shattered, grieving, and afraid, Nyx begins to understand that the war did not end on the battlefield. Whatever happened inside Absalom’s tower has changed everything. The Apexes are no longer being celebrated as saviors, but feared as threats, and Nyx is about to be left alone inside the system that created them.
What follows is not the comfort of survival, but the quiet beginning of something far worse. Family is severed. Childhood is stripped away. And under the gaze of the man who calls himself her father, Nyx learns what it means to be seen not as a child, but as a project waiting to be broken.
Those Stars in Her Eyes is a grimdark sci-fi tragedy about engineered innocence, familial control, and the first moment a child realizes love can be used as a weapon.
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