The setting is a high-tech, low-life dystopia where the very air is monetized.

In the ruins of the Iron-Glass City, memories aren't kept in books; they are stored in the hum of the electric grid. For Elias Thorne, a low-level technician, the grid was a symphony he was born to conduct. But in a society that harvests "excess potential" from its citizens to power the elite districts, Elias was never meant to be a conductor. He was meant to be a battery.

Elias’s transformation occurred during the "Festival of Lights." While the elite celebrated, he inverted the flow of the city’s central capacitor.

A sentient energy network that reacts to human emotion.

A cracked glass circuit board worn as a chest plate, glowing with stolen blue light.

"Memory Overload"—using the city's power grid to project suppressed crimes onto every screen and into every mind.