CITADEL
“My name is Makan. And I’ve been waiting for someone like you.”
OUTSKIRTS – NIGHT
The sky pressed low over the ruins, ash swirling like restless ghosts. Abigail stood at the mouth of the Brass Fangs’ refinery, the same decaying structure Tunde had walked into days ago.
Only now, the wind carried something colder.
She wore her dust-streaked jacket zipped to the throat, a satchel slung tight across her shoulder. Her hand rested on it, over the Adrium shard glowing faintly inside.
She knocked once.
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