Static Orchard

The orchard keeps saving itself wrong, and only one small change tells them why.

In the sunlit green hills, a glitch is hiding in the trees. Every time the team thinks they're safe, the orchard "saves" them back to the very same tree, with one tiny detail changed each time. A different branch. A wrong shadow. A path that wasn't there before.

Brick Bloom is the team's mark-maker. He always believed that a sign you draw once will hold forever. But a glitch that rewrites memory can eat any drawing, unless the whole team remembers, out loud and together, exactly what the mark means.

With help from a tiny tree-sprout named Sprig Signal, Brick and Pip Pop discover that the scariest changes aren't broken at all. Some of them are just scared. Some saves were made to keep someone safe. Some were made to keep someone out.

A gentle, clever adventure about memory, friendship, and the power of agreeing on what matters. Perfect for fans of the Minecraft novels and The Wild Robot. Ages 8-12.

Book 2 of Captain Cubemelon & Friends: The Glitch Blocks.