—The Fall of Seren : A Paradisi Chronicles Short— On the planet Ddaera, under the ill-omened light of double moons, Seren stands at the precipice of destruction. Using only her psychokinesis and earthtouch skills, Seren is destined to face a prophesied meteor alone, but she knows in her heart she hasn't the strength to withstand such power. Yet there is one other willing to stand with her if she would let him: Idris. But Idris has been experimenting in secret, and Seren knows his life-saving skill was born out of the deaths of those dear to her. Should she accept his help? And even if she does, will it be enough to save her people before it’s too late? —The Paradisi Chronicles Universe— In the last decades of the twenty-first century, ten families seeking to escape an increasingly devastated Earth focus their power and wealth on constructing spaceships that will allow a select few to leave Earth and colonize the world they call New Eden. Here, on their new home in the Paradisi System, these Founding Families hope to avoid the environmental and political disasters that were destroying Earth. But they find that the world they claim for their own is already inhabited, and the Ddaerans, although human in their appearance, possess abilities that the Founders and their descendants find both intriguing and frightening… —About— The Paradisi Chronicles is an open-source multi-author sci-fi universe set in a fictional planetary system in the Andromeda galaxy. Built by seven founding members of the group, Paradisi Chronicles has grown by leaps and bounds as more and more authors continue to explore 200 years of history spanning the flight from an apocalyptic Earth to the settling and expansion of the Paradisi System. —Genre— Near-Future Sci-Fi, Apocalyptic Earth, Colonization, First Contact