At 2:13 a.m., the sky over Lower District Six cracked open—just for a second.
People thought it was lightning.
Elias knew better.
He saw the threads. Hundreds of them. Twisting. Burning. And then… gone. As if someone had reached into the city and plucked out lives like weeds.
The news blamed it on a power plant explosion. The Veil knew it was a Devourer—a rare kind of Awakened who doesn't just kill. They consume.
The new threat had a name: Lucen Black. No records. No birth certificate. Just a list of missing cities in his wake. And wherever he went, powers vanished—along with the people who carried them.