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"That's the thing, isn't it?" Elara said, zooming into a dense cluster of grain boundaries on the Onyx Heart. "The manual is free. The law is free. But understanding it?" She tapped her temple. "That cost me twelve years at the Ceres Academy and a debt I'll die paying."

Elara ran a spectral decoder—a trick not in the manual, but something she'd learned in the debt-fueled hell of the Academy's underground forums. The shadow resolved into a string of coordinates. A place beyond the asteroid belt. And a timestamp: tomorrow. "That's the thing, isn't it

"Kael," she whispered. "Look at this."

She ran the probe. The ultrasonic data painted a sonogram on her retina: a beautiful, crystalline forest of perfect nickel-iron alloy. Then, near the core, a shadow. Not a void. Not a crack. Something else. But understanding it

Her partner, Kael, didn't look up from his own scan. "Everyone hates Chapter 7. But if you miss a Class 3 Lattice Distortion, the ICCI says we go to prison." A place beyond the asteroid belt

She looked at the Onyx Heart. The coupling wasn't a component. It was a recording device. Someone had forged a secret into the very lattice of the metal, hoping an inspector with enough desperation to read the fine print would find it.