CHAPTER 210 — THE NIGHT THE CITY STOOD TOGETHER
Night returned to the city carrying the kind of tension that changed history.
The skyline burned beneath thousands of fractured lights while crowds continued flooding through the streets without slowing, their voices rising through the dark like something alive beneath the towers. From the control room high above the city, Elena could see entire districts glowing with movement, civilians crossing sector lines openly, independent transit systems running without authorization, decentralized communication relays flashing across rooftops like stars stitched into the bones of the skyline itself.
The city no longer belonged to the system.
But the system had not accepted that yet.
And somewhere beneath all the movement and noise spreading through the streets below, something dangerous was waking up.
