444-Daybreak

The sun didn't set. It changed. When the sky turns against them, the students trapped inside their school don't just have to survive the light. They have to survive each other. Four months. Four ways of deciding what a life is worth when nothing is owed to anyone anymore. Eli came to this school an introvert who barely knew a single name. He'll leave it, if he leaves it at all, having watched strangers become family, leaders become tyrants, and grief carve four separate governments out of one collapsed hallway. Underground, in the dark, a handful of the stubborn and the hopeful keep digging toward something they can't see and can't quite stop believing in, even as everything above them keeps grinding down to nothing. 444 is a story about what's left of childhood when the world stops protecting it, and what a few kids are still willing to dig for when everyone else has stopped trying.