Silent Strata

The walls of The Bastion don't just protect. They listen.

In a colossal, windowless fortress that stretches endlessly upward, Veda is a Sound-Mapper. While the rest of the city fears the "Void Storms" raging outside, Veda presses her ear to the cold limestone, using tuning forks and stethoscopes to detect the microscopic fractures that threaten their world. She is solitary, obsessive, and hears things in the stone that the ruling Masons ignore.

But deep in the forgotten strata of the lower le...