In the year 3124, Earth was no longer the blue marble it once was. The seas had turned gray, the sky a permanent shade of dusk, and the cities — now enclosed in glass domes — survived only by the grace of the Atmospheric Reclamation Network. The wealthiest thrived in the Sky Districts, while the rest clawed at existence on the lower levels, where synthetic air barely filtered the soot from their lungs. Cassia Vale, a former atmospheric engineer turned smuggler, lived in the underbelly of New Terra City. Once celebrated for her innovations in the Reclamation Network, she was cast out after exposing a leak that revealed the entire system was rigged to favor the elites. They didn’t fix the problem — they buried it. And her. Now, she was making a living stealing air.