COPPER TRAP, GOLDEN DOOR

Archivist Benjamin has spent his life cataloguing the past. He didn't expect the past to start cataloguing him.

It begins with a structure that should not exist — a tower never meant to rise again, returning not in brick, but in policy. Few notice. Fewer survive noticing.

Prometheus didn't think it theft, but a right to capture the eternal fire. He failed. The builders who came after him didn't stop at fire. They built a gate, and they have been opening it in the shadow of night for longer th...