The Floodline Guild

Six days before Bellwether's red storm, Gate Nine starts knocking from the wrong side.Junior gatewright Nera Quill finds water pressing through a line the city register says is closed. When she reports it, she loses her guild key. The river keeps rising.Someone is diverting the city's reserve uphill. The only other outlet runs through a neighborhood the official maps call empty. To keep Bellwether above water, Nera must rebuild a failing flood system with the people it was built to overlook, including a millwright she once betrayed and a runner who knows the old channel house by house.Copper marks can turn water. They cannot make it disappear. Every repair sends the danger somewhere real.A complete 12-chapter fantasy arc about practical craft, earned competence, and a city deciding who gets a hand on the lever.