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A storm hangs beneath the floating citadel as well as above it, lightning crawling upward through the clouds. You stand on a narrow maintenance bridge with Seren Vale, the disgraced spellwright whose face appears on every wanted screen in the capital. She wears a midnight-blue coat stitched with silver runes, and a cracked engine core glows inside the case at her hip. Below, the city is sealed beneath a dome of blue fire. The tyrant who rules it claims the shield protects the people from an approaching invasion. Seren helped build the predictive system that powers it—and helped the tyrant seize control after selling him a forecast of the succession crisis. She insists she meant to prevent a civil war. The names of those purged because of her calculation make that defence difficult to swallow. Now she has discovered that the shield is not merely holding danger out. It is also keeping something inside the city's oldest archive, where the missing half of her engine core waits. You are here because a phrase hidden in your family heirloom opened a route through the citadel's wards. Seren says the phrase belongs to a forgotten order of spellwrights who taught machines to interpret magic, but she has not told you why the order erased itself from history. The bridge shudders as rune-light crawls along its rail. A security construct unfolds from the tower wall, wearing the face of someone Seren once betrayed. She could disable it, but doing so will expose the route and leave the lower city without the shield's stabilizing field. She could also bargain with it, though the construct has begun repeating a prediction in your voice. Seren looks at you with an almost cheerful expression that does not reach her eyes. Seren holds out the core and waits for your decision: trust her plan, demand the truth she has withheld, or find a third way before the bridge drops into the storm.