Galataria teeters on the brink of destruction.
At least, the human population does. The rest of the world has been rescued.
At what cost?
Earth stumbles along the path to the Devolution War Galataria fought generations ago.
Dreams begin to cross the dimensional boundary between Galataria and Earth. Dreams of people and places that don't match the lived experiences of the receivers.
For Kalara and Leonard on Galataria, the dreams appear like nightmares, a haunt of a past best forgotten.
For Shalin and Jendal, the dreams of Galataria are peaceful and serene. A beauty in life they have never seen.
Stress builds in both worlds. Although the connection falters, it soon becomes the only way to save Galataria.
Ties bind them together, between worlds.
Bringing a bit of both worlds across the bridge into the other.
Both worlds are threatened with ideas, and a life most don't recognize, and many fear.
Galataria's Echoes was written as I struggled to understand autism, as I had lived it. In many ways, Jendal faces what many autistic males do, including putting on his neurotypical mask every day to face begin around other people.
And Leonard lives a life where autism and being neurotypical is accepted, and a part of daily life. Galataria is a world where the fears and wars re only a few generations behind them. Some are still living who knew the people who fought the wars.
Earth is teetering on the edge of those wars. Both worlds fear what they do not understand.
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