Wayfinder

The system isn't broken. It was built this way.

Riverside is freezing. Twelve degrees and dropping. The city's aging power grid is screaming under the load, transformers popping like firecrackers across the neighborhood. Cascade Energy isn't coming to fix it-they've done the math, and this zip code doesn't add up.

Elias Chen knows exactly why the grid is failing. He can see the cascade patterns in his sleep, trace the load imbalances like fault lines through the city's infrastructure. Three y...