Chapter 32Black Symphony of the BankThe financial district of London, known to locals as the City, was a dense labyrinth of towering glass skyscrapers and narrow, medieval alleyways that had survived the Great Fire. Tonight, the modern office buildings stood dark and empty, their reflective windows showing the flickering orange glow of the distant Tower fires. The streets below were completely deserted, the human population having fled toward the western suburbs, leaving the stone lanes to the silence and the growing weight of the mist.The sound that Laila had heard from the river was louder here, a deep, rhythmic thudding that felt like a massive iron piston striking the earth beneath the Bank of England. It wasn't the clean, sapphire frequency Elias had used to dissolve the glass creatures; it was a heavy, suffocating note that carried the scent of old copper, wet wool, and the bitter, metallic tang of an extraction process that was tearing a soul apart.They moved in a tight tac
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