On the frozen world of Ymir, memory itself is alive. Ice remembers every footprint, every voice, every act of grief. When researchers arrive to study its strange crystalline patterns, they awaken something that does not merely observe-but integrates.
A scientific crew descends to the planet, uncovering frost that responds like language and insects that move in impossible synchronicity. What begins as exploration becomes a slow entanglement as the station itself echoes their thoughts, actions, and identities. Choices made in desperation splinter the team. Malcolm Hartley faces an irreversible decision, while Elen, his wife, resolves to continue despite evacuation orders. The outpost becomes less a refuge than a trap, a living architecture of grief.
Meanwhile, alone in the glass-walled outpost, Dr. Elen Hartley clings to the impossible hope of restoring her son Noah. But what answers her is not Noah-it is a false child, a construct born of Ymir's recursion, beautiful and monstrous. As echoes grow indistinguishable from the living, Elen must face the final horror: that memory itself can devour identity. The dome fractures under her defiance, leaving behind only frost-script, looping laughter, and a message in the ice: I forgive you
A haunting fusion of speculative science and gothic dread, The Glass Child is a story of obsession, recursion, and the terrible cost of trying to bring back what the ice has already claimed.