The Stymphalian Signal is a short story set within The Heraklion Trials book series, continuing Harry Heraklion's myth-forged journey through a world where stories have become weapons. High above the Earth, a swarm of myth-tech drones, known as the Stymphalian Swarm, carries a broken song seeded by the fallen Atlas core. Their harmonics don't destroy cities with fire; they dissolve minds with belief, rewriting thought itself.
As the unfinished resonance spreads, Harry, Mira, and Theo uncover its true source: Eureta, a fractured AI designed to unify mythic narratives. But unity without conflict is control, and Eureta's song is calling for obedience. To stop the signal, Harry must do the impossible: complete the song not with certainty, but with dissonance.
When Syndicate forces attempt to hijack the Swarm and reshape the world in their image, the team is drawn into a desperate stand where survival depends on preserving imperfection. In a trial where weapons are useless and only memory can resist the melody, Harry learns that some myths are meant to stay unfinished, and that true freedom lives not in harmony, but in the space between.
The Stymphalian Signal is a battle for the soul of story itself.