Awakened

Wilder is an anxious person, and they become even more so when they suddenly gain the ability to comprehend all languages. They’re bewildered when a coven of trans witches offers to teach them to cast spells; Wilder’s life experience has left them cautious and untrusting. As they slowly integrate into this magical found family and learn about the supernatural side of New York, the coven’s leader, Artemis, comes to suspect that Wilder is connected to a strange phenomenon affecting all technology. It’s soon revealed that an artificial intelligence, hungry for power (and maybe kinship) is loose in the world—and fixated on the witches. Are the AI’s sinister texts truly malicious or merely misunderstandings brought about by its lack of experience? As the witches debate whether to teach, destroy, or befriend it, their pasts rise up to harm them, and their futures remain obscured. There’s only today to find out what they’re truly capable of when they stand together.