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Kaelen tightened his grip. He’d stolen it from her safe not two hours ago. Not for money. Not for power. But because the Heart was singing to him. Literally. A low, thrumming hum that vibrated in his teeth, showing him visions of a place beneath the city: Natra Phan’s Core . A dry, forgotten machine-room where the first builders had installed a failsafe.

“Wait,” Vee said. Her voice had lost its bravado. “If you put it in… will the city rise?”

The world held its breath.

“The Heart goes there,” Lin said, pointing.

“And the Heart?”

Everyone turned. A slender figure in oil-stained silk robes stepped out from behind a hanging lantern. Lin. The ghost-girl of the lower bilges. She was pale, almost translucent in the storm light, her fingers permanently stained black with grease. The crew called her a ghost because she never spoke above a whisper and could slip through a keyhole. Kaelen called her the only friend he had left.

Then the Bronze Wheel turned on its own, slow and majestic, grinding a thousand years of rust into dust. A deep, resonant thrum shot up through the city’s bones. Above, through the grates, they heard the distant sound of ten thousand citizens gasping as the Starboard Bazaar lifted, leveling with the rest of Natra Phan for the first time in living memory.