Nyxara Rising
A trap.
Nyxara dug deeper, fingers flying, eyes narrowing. The ledger theft—a move she’d orchestrated with surgical precision—hadn’t tripped a single wire. Instead, it had started a slow, deliberate slide, like tectonic plates shifting underfoot. Permissions began to reroute, trust scores subtly reordered, systems she’d always controlled now slipping sideways. No one was blocking her. They were simply moving around her, rerouting the river, making her efforts irrelevant.