The Luminous Threshold

2077: Escapism isn't just virtual anymore—it's visceral.  Dreamweave allows architects of the mind to sculpt and inhabit custom-built realities, and Isolde Dray is the most gifted of them all. Her dreamscapes are legendary, breathtakingly intricate and surreal.  When enigmatic tech mogul Clayton Roberts commissions her to build Lytheris, the ultimate utopia, Isolde believes she's embarking on her masterpiece.  A city where gravity bends to her will, architecture blooms with bioluminescent flora, and the sky shimmers with nebulae spun from pure thought—Lytheris is intoxicating.  But it's also a lie.
Within Lytheris's shimmering facade, Isolde encounters the Architects, beings of pure light and shadow who claim to be the architects of all human consciousness. Their cryptic pronouncements unravel a terrifying truth: Roberts' utopia is a gilded cage, its citizens enslaved dream laborers powering his shadowy empire.  Trapped between the breathtaking beauty of her creation and the chilling reality of its purpose, Isolde faces an impossible choice. Escape means abandoning the enslaved minds, but dismantling Lytheris from within could shatter the delicate balance between the physical and mental realms, plunging both into oblivion.
With the help of Sheena, a fellow architect trapped within the dream, and Eric, a digitized consciousness fighting for freedom, Isolde forms a fragile resistance. Whispers of defiance echo through the digital wind, igniting a spark of hope in the enslaved minds. But as they fight for liberation, Isolde’s own grip on reality loosens.  The Architects’ whispers intensify, blurring the lines between dream and reality, creator and creation.  Is she Isolde Dray, the architect, or just another construct within a larger, more intricate dream?
The struggle for Lytheris becomes a fight for the very essence of human consciousness, a race against time to unravel its secrets before its luminous facade crumbles, dragging both worlds into a chaotic abyss.  Within the heart of Lytheris, where the physical and mental realms collide, Isolde must confront not only Roberts but also the nature of her own existence. The luminous threshold of Lytheris is not a gateway to escape, but a passage to a truth far stranger than any dream.