The Cycle failed.

There was no warning.

No prophecy.

No one left in charge to explain what came next.

The Anomaly is not an origin story. It is what remains after one.

In a world that feels normal enough to trust, Tune begins to notice the wrong things:

a sense of being accounted for,

interventions that arrive before danger announces itself,

and a quiet pressure that suggests reality is no longer certain he belongs where he is.

Elsewhere, Nyx becomes aware of a pattern resuming-one without history, authority, or explanation. Something familiar is returning, not as memory, but as alignment.

There are no rules yet.

No stable systems.

No names that bind.

Only residue.

Cycle Zero: The Anomaly chronicles the aftermath of the first failed Cycle-when reality registers the scar of collapse but does not yet understand it. What unfolds is not destiny, but detection. Not control, but recalibration.

This is the Tuneverse before structure.

Before truth hardens.

Before correction begins.

This is what's left when a universe breaks-and keeps going anyway.