They survived the blackout, the riots, and the fall. But in the shattered remnants of D.C., something darker is igniting. Washington, D.C., didn’t burn in a day. It broke by degrees—first the power, then the trust, then the truth. Two years later, what’s left behind is a web of barter routes, hidden relay signals, and people learning to survive on memory and nerve. At the Harman-Weber farm, survivors have carved out a fragile life—trading, growing, and remembering. Perry navigates the burned-out trade corridors, keeping messages alive for the Spire, a decentralized courier and relay network that runs beneath the grid. Vale monitors the quiet bands, tracking signal shifts and hidden transmissions that hint at what’s coming. And Viv Harman records the dead in the Book of Names. In Foggy Bottom, where the brownstone pulses with quiet resistance, Julian, Tessa, and the others are monitoring signals that just don't echo anymore… They listen. But Senator Moyers is tightening his grip, claiming security through resource consolidation. And deep beneath Mount Weather, Congresswoman Madeline Ryan discovers the government's newest weapon isn’t a drone strike or a chemical kill zone. It’s a spreadsheet. A policy. A quiet sweep of erasure masquerading as efficiency, one zone at a time. As classified tags and whispered code names begin to cross paths—Carry the spindle, no echo—the scattered resistance must decide whether survival means hiding… or hitting back. As part of the October Fall World's next era, The Shattered Remains, D.C. Rises is a post-collapse thriller where survival isn't the endgame… It's the cost of standing up before you're erased.