The Ordered Court found Ferra's three grounding stakes before sunrise, sending white-gold force into every maker mark across the western districts.
Ferra had forged exactly three during the Hunt, placing them at the mint, Loccy's canal bridge, plus the western archive monument. A fourth had never existed, since her first Wing could not have borne a larger circuit.
Now she stood beside the archive stake with one palm against its heated shaft. Floating tools measured strain within the metal around her steady hands.
The mint mark pulled against her thumb while the canal mark struck two fingers. The archive's heat climbed through her wrist in slow pulses.
Ferra fixed a copper gauge against the shaft before speaking. "They found my signature, so a broken stake sends stored force through its district foundation."
