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Oakhaven is a city split in two. Above the smoke and soot, the Upper Spires glitter in polished steel and glass. Below, the Lower Gears grind on rust and hunger. Once, alchemy powered it all. Then came the Breach — a disaster that tore open the sky and shattered trust in the ancient science forever. Silas Thorne was the man who tuned the engine that failed. Now disgraced and hiding in a soot-choked workshop, he survives by fixing broken gauges and pretending he no longer hears the deep vibrations beneath the city’s bones. Until a noblewoman from the Upper Spires arrives with a sealed cold-iron box pulled from the ruins of the Breach. The artifact hums with a familiar frequency — one Silas prayed never to hear again. It is not a machine. It is not a weapon. It is a key. And something on the other side is waiting for it to turn. As class tensions rise and forbidden alchemy stirs once more, Silas must decide whether to bury his past… or risk tearing Oakhaven open a second time.
