Nyxara Rising
Nyxara didn’t sleep.
She sat in the dark, high above the world, the city stretching beneath her window like a beast uneasy in its own skin. The pulse of distant traffic, the flicker of neon signs, the restless hush of millions—all of it seeped through the glass, but she barely noticed. Behind her, banks of screens cast their ghostly glow, each one a silent tributary feeding her a steady current of secrets. Data drifted in: fragments of voices, encrypted chatter, banking slips, movement logs. She read it all in a glance, hunger sharpened by necessity.