Expansion saga: A Season in Alderwick

Expansion Saga — *A Season in Alderwick*

**A season in a town that is running out of them.**

Alderwick is a fishing town on a cold northern coast, and it is dying politely — fewer boats every year, the cannery half shuttered, the church wrapped in scaffolding nobody expects to come down. You have inherited the glasshouse on the hill above it, and a long bench of silver honesty your grandmother kept alive for forty years.

Then four women in Alderwick begin — quietly, and then not quietly at all — to outgrow the town.

Expansion Saga is a slow, warm, choice-driven visual novel about being *seen*. Each of the four changes along a single axis of her own, and each has to decide what to do about a body the town can no longer pretend not to notice: the ferry mechanic who was always about to leave, the archivist who spent twenty years making herself small, the harbour mechanic holding an entire street together, and the cannery heiress who cannot accept a kindness she is unable to audit.

Alderwick notices. Alderwick always notices. And this town does not keep secrets — it keeps people.