Marked From Birth
They had bought themselves time.
The Monoliths did not stand like statues; they pulsed like beacons. Located five miles from the valley floor on a plateau of jagged sapphire glass, the three pillars rose sixty feet into the thin, violet air. As Audrey and her team approached in the "Frost-Skiffs"—lightweight hover-sleds powered by the city's residual Synthesis—the air around the pillars began to hum, a sound that bypassed the ears and resonated directly in the bronze lines of Audrey’s skin.
"The markings aren't etched into the stone," Mara noted, her gloved hand hovering inches from the surface. "They’re suspended within it. It’s a data-lattice. This isn't just rock; it’s a solid-state memor
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