Rootwake: The Carbon Covenant

by Matthew Petchinsky

The world didn't burn. It fizzed.

From the ashes of cities rises a new faith-one not built on gods, but on carbonation. Rootwake™, once a mysterious organic soda, has become a global infection of taste and thought. Now, its syrup pulses through the sky, its vapor coats the lungs, and its gospel bubbles from the throats of the transformed.

Enter the Carbon Covenant: a sprawling order of syrup saints, pop prophets, and mirror-possessed children who speak in soda syllables during sleep. Temples made of vending machines. Rain that hisses with molasses. Sermons broadcast by sentient algorithms. Reality itself begins to ferment.

But not everyone has poured.

Corin Vale, survivor and skeptic, documents the collapse of time, memory, and self as the world becomes a hive of humming devotion. Those who refuse the fizz are vanishing-either into vapor or into something far stranger.

Rootwake: The Carbon Covenant is the terrifying second installment of the Frothroot saga-a hyperreal horror epic where language dissolves, cities breathe, and the only pure thought left is thirst.

Flavor is the future.

And it remembers your name.