Ghost in the Aire

Beneath the gleaming, climate-scrubbed canopy of the Aethelgard Metroplex, eight million citizens live inside an invisible machine where every watt of power, gallon of water, and mag-lev commute is orchestrated by the omnipotent municipal grid. But when a routine friction audit detects an impossible micro-delay in the system's clock cycles, senior systems architect Gerald Cipher realizes the infra...