In Contempt

You are not reading this story. You are on trial in it.

You are Eli Moreau. In Gatecrash the sky over Chicago tore open and the Bureau took you down floor by floor. Now the balance-door opens onto the Judgment Halls. Nobody asks you to sign anything here. They only ask questions. Being right is how they weigh you.

This is interactive survival fiction: YOU make every choice. Every section ends in a decision and a number. Pick one, turn to it, and the path you skipped is allowed to kill you. Choose badly and you die, the page tells you why, and you go back to the fork that ended you.

Theo still has a fist in your sleeve. Naomi still reads every rule twice. Code words from Gatecrash still matter. Write down every new one. Book Three will ask for all of them.

The Bench is listening. The scale is empty. Your weight starts at zero.

In Contempt is Book Two of The Gauntlet trilogy in the Survive This Book (If You Can) series. Bring what you carried out of Book One.