The Lady in Limbo prologue

Before the Great Collapse, Synchs were worshipped as gods. The strongest of them all was blind and deaf—Lucius, the Praised.  And then he vanished. So did a girl named Ester. But no one remembered her. Until I found her. Trapped in Limbo—a realm swarming with tortured Arcbeasts and overflowing with raw Flo—Ester had survived. Waiting. Training. Enduring. She seeks the impossible: True Synchronicity. A state even Lucius never reached...