Assurance

Fire protection used to be a public service. Now safety is a subscription.

In the city of Cineris, rescue arrives by tier: Bronze, Silver, Platinum. The towers are spotless. The Char burns on schedule.

Kara Holt, once a city firefighter, now runs a volunteer crew into the neighbourhoods no plan covers, and she is losing ground by the night. Mira Espina is an analyst in the tower her father runs, and she has found the reason in the models: the fires below are not accidents. They are line items...