Waking up to my sin
The night air at the base of Vane Tower was thick with the suffocating scent of rain and the distant, ozone-heavy aftermath of the EMP. The skyscraper loomed over the Thames like a jagged shard of obsidian, a monument to the Vane family’s centuries of unbridled greed and blood-stained legacy. While the rest of Mayfair was still struggling to bring its secondary grids online—a sea of black stone and desperate silence—the tower pulsed with a low, menacing crimson light. Its private, off-grid generators hummed with a defiant, mechanical arrogance, a heartbeat of power in a dead city.