Shadow Luna
The Harbor Confrontation
The interior of the warehouse felt remarkably dry compared to the lashing brine outside, though the air stayed thick with the smell of old parchment, scorching silicon, and the faint, bitter musk of wild mint.
Agatha did not drop her hands from the server cradle. Her slender fingers remained poised above the manual kill-switches, her knuckles turning a sharp, bloodless white under the pale amber glare of the overhead workspace lamps. She wore a simple, dark traveling cloak that looked caked in the gray dust of a hundred different border towns, her sharp features mapping out a web of deep, permanent lines that spoke of twenty years spent hiding in the lawless drift zo