Witness

A Technomancers Rise Origin Novella (Tales of the Technomancer's Rise)

De: KaCee Bunn-Smith

Narrado por: Madison Cross-Battle

Before the Ascended Choir, there was a girl with a broom—and a city that needed a better word for “door.”

Raised on the road by Mama Tess, Ari learns the quiet arts that keep people human: water first, count by threes, no walls made of people. When the caravan turns toward Lost Angles, her lessons are tested by heat, hunger, and raiders who mistake mercy for weakness. Tess teaches Ari to make rooms behave—write the rules where hands will touch them—and to believe that witnesses and receipts can hold a shaken world together.

Then the city wakes. Power hums. Forges open. And a doorway becomes more than metal. Stepping through, Ari hears the city as a chord, not a crown—and helps give language to what follows: eyes present, consent signed, clinic first, abort on alarm. What begins with chalk at hand height becomes the seed of a movement. Chaos sees it. Malachi names it. The Choir is born.

Witness is an Ari origin: from broom to spear, from caravan to tower, from a single steady voice to a chorus that keeps doors being doors. It’s a story about breath in dangerous places, the strength of small kindnesses, and how a little old lady with a big smile can change the future—one room at a time.

©2025 KaCee K Bunn-Smith (P)2026 KaCee K Bunn-Smith

Favorite New (?) Narrator

This narrator has an extremely listenable voice. Madison has an ability to paint pictures with her words. Every character had dimension and their personalities were vibrantly realistic. I would listen to more of her work, but she only has one other title out on Audible right now.

As for the story, this novella stood out for me in the Technomancer series. Maybe because the author was writing this in homage to his fav kick bottom grandma, but the plot seemed very focused.

If you like prairie westerns with a bit of Steampunk, this is the book for you. It’s a quick fun listen.

Overuse of metaphor

What I liked about the story was how the narrator was able to keep me engaged. The voice that was used kept me wondering there’s got to be more to this story even though the overuse of metaphor was aggravating me Madison Cross battle is amazing. I do not believe that too many narrators could have kept me engaged long enough to finish this story. The story is difficult to get through because the verbal graphics that the writer tries to inspire. Keep you from the flow of the idea that the author is trying to create. Thank you very much narrator because there were some good ideas here to think about Madison Cross battle rocks. Once I got through the entire story, I found it an interesting idea. So I like the idea that the author was trying to express. What I did not like was the overuse of descriptives for actual action. The reason I did not like that is it made it difficult to understand what the story was about what the characters were doing. What the writer did do well was give you once you got through the entire story, the character of each of the individuals in action in the story. So it did have that personal effect.