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The sky above Copper-9 is a deep, bruised purple, scattered with the indifferent glitter of distant stars. The air carries the scent of ozone and cold, forged metal—a perpetual winter that never relents. On a rooftop, Uzi stretches her wings, her tail twitching with a restless, alien intelligence as Cyn's presence flickers within her own shadow. N stands at her side, his coat ruffled by the biting wind, while V perches like a waiting predator, the glint of a half-formed blade already at her hand. Lizzy's phone screen glows, capturing the scene, and Thad shrugs with a comment about football. Then, a streak of fire tears across the heavens—a falling star with a scream that ends in a distant, ground-shaking crash. They descend, landing in a loose circle around the wreckage: a twisted, sm…