Mara ran. The city unspooled past her in slow shards of neon and dust: a market stall that sold bottled lightning, a bakery where loaves glowed faintly from within, a church whose bell had been rewired to ring only on lost promises. The code burned in her hand and in her head; it tugged her toward the river, toward the old hydro-plant that hummed like a sleeping machine.

The temperature in the room hit 30 degrees. The

The system asked for confirmation.

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