High-tech enforcers tasked with capturing Elias, though they often find their own secrets leaked before they can pull the trigger. 📖 Key Themes

A sentient energy network that reacts to human emotion.

To power the broadcast, Elias had to bridge his own nervous system into the machine, permanently scarring his body with "lightning burns." 🏗️ World Building: The Iron-Glass City

Forced accountability through radical transparency.

How much of our identity is tied to the things we wish we could forget?

In the ruins of the Iron-Glass City, memories aren't kept in books; they are stored in the hum of the electric grid. For Elias Thorne, a low-level technician, the grid was a symphony he was born to conduct. But in a society that harvests "excess potential" from its citizens to power the elite districts, Elias was never meant to be a conductor. He was meant to be a battery.