Compass & Codex

Max built a LEGO town called Brickhaven. Every wall, every street, every guard. Then he woke up inside it — one-and-a-half inches tall. And they closed the gates. Brickhaven Ep.1 follows Max across the vast landscape of his bedroom floor — now a wilderness at minifig scale — to the walls of the town he built with his own hands. When he gets there, the guards raise their spears. For fans of the LEG...

They’ve been underground their entire lives. The world outside is enormous. And it is trying to kill them. In this episode, Cinder, Blaze, and Thistle emerge from the maintenance tunnel at dawn into the outside world for the first time. Thistle immediately begins mapping landmarks. Blaze leads through the dense grass. They detour around a colony of black ants defending their territory. They encoun...

Cinder has a plan. Blaze says it’s suicide. Thistle has done the math. The colony has four days of food left. In this episode, Cinder gathers Blaze and Thistle and proposes the mission: slip out beyond the colony boundaries to investigate the pill bugs before the food runs out completely. Silas Venn discovers their meeting place and refuses to report them. The debate gets heated. Then Etta announc...

Four days of food. An injured scout barely alive, whispering about “rolling thieves.”  The tunnels sealed. And a maintenance passage just barely wide enough for three young ants. In this episode, hunger grips the Fire Ant Kingdom. An injured scout is carried in — Harper Blackwood, missing two legs, gasping a warning before losing consciousness. Captain Selwick seals the tunnels and declares a colo...

They were ready to sneak out before dawn. Then someone stepped out of the shadows. She already knew everything. In this episode, the colony healer Silke Greer reveals she overheard their plans — and instead of stopping them, she helps. She teaches Cinder, Blaze, and Thistle how to mask their scent from predators, how to find water in the dry terrain, and how to approach Moss Wren, the territorial...

Queen Aureline addresses the entire colony. The decree is absolute: no ant — especially no young ant — ventures beyond the inner boundaries. Cinder, Blaze, and Thistle have three days before the food runs out. In this episode, the Queen’s announcement sends panic through the Grand Chamber. Cinder sneaks into the record chamber that night to find ancient accounts of pill bug territorial disputes —...

A third of the colony’s food has vanished overnight. Nobody knows why. And the keeper in charge of the stores is pretending everything is fine. In this episode of the Compass & Codex ant adventure audiobook for boys , Cinder, Blaze, and Thistle notice the missing food, confront the keeper Etta Lorne, spy on a secret military briefing from a ledge above the Grand Chamber — and learn that three...

Two more scouts vanished during the night patrol. The disappearances are moving closer. And Cinder just found a piece of shell that doesn’t belong to any ant. In this episode, the colony wakes to an emergency meeting. Cinder, Blaze, and Thistle eavesdrop from a hidden tunnel junction and learn the food shortage is far worse than anyone is publicly admitting. Then Cinder discovers something in the...

Cinder Marlowe wants to be a scout. He’s a food sorter. Today, that changes. In this episode of the Compass & Codex ant adventure audiobook for boys , Cinder sneaks away before dawn to watch Captain Bram Selwick lead the morning patrol through the Fire Ant Kingdom’s main tunnel. He meets his best friends Blaze and Thistle, watches Queen Aureline make her daily inspection, and makes a decision...