If You Are Chosen to Survive — the portal opens (quotes that pull you in)

Milena Oreshkova
Oct 14
2 min read

Brief summary: The first two chapters of If You Are Chosen to Survive — Transformation opens a door to a world after a silent catastrophe—not of fire, but of oblivion. The Grail "activates," and Melina and Nathanael awaken at opposite poles: she—between visions and pain; he—between control and numbers.

TL;DR entry quotes:

"Shanghai dissolved before dawn... not with an earthquake, not with a tsunami, but with a silent, cold breath that swallowed everything."

"On the screen… 'Code Grail: Activated. Quantum Leap…'"

Why the Prologue and Chapter 1 hit so hard

1) Quiet apocalypse instead of clichés Right in the prologue the city "dissolves" without explosions—memory, laughter, and whispers vanish. This is an apocalypse of consciousness, a "digital plague" that corrodes the core of human identity.

"The world was agonizing... from a viral oblivion—a digital plague that corroded the neurons of memory."

2) The Grail as protocol, not an object "Code Grail: Activated" turns mysticism into a quantum procedure—trial, guidance, threshold. No savior arrives; consciousness wakes up.

3) Entering Melina's voice (Chapter 1) The Call of the Grail does not shy away from the bodily cost of vision: a burning wrist, ancient signs beneath the skin, the rhythm of a threshold between worlds.

"My left wrist burned... an invisible wound throbbed with ancient symbols beneath my skin."

4) The RIFT—metaphysics with physical weight The dream is a "rift"—not metaphor but a wound in being; the voices of lost civilizations feel almost tactile.

"The dream was not just a dream. It was a rift. A gaping wound in existence."

5) The Melina—Nathanael counterpoint She hears "the call of eternity"; he believes in numbers and control—until the lights from her notes begin to appear before his eyes too. That tension is the engine of the story.

Shareable snippets

"Not the end of civilization. It was the disintegration of the very Heart, which left the world without a pulse."
"Every return from the abyss bore one name... Nathanael."
"Awakened not by a savior, but by an awakened consciousness."
"Past. Present. Future. Everything collided within me, tearing me apart."

What it promises next

These opening pages set the series formula: metaphysics that cuts like surgery — love and guilt, memory and oblivion, code and rebirth. Most importantly: the Grail isn't a thing. It's a frequency. The beginning of transformation.

"In the dreams where cities dissolve like salt in light, the Grail was not an object, but a frequency—a heart key..."

Call to the reader

If these lines resonate, continue with Volume I: Transformation —where the world doesn't end; it rearranges. And where the question isn't who will save us , but when we will awaken .

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