An ocean hangs above Veyra, and every ninety-nine years one city is erased from memory to keep it there. This cycle has chosen Lume—the upward harbor whose forgotten foundations may prove the sacrifice was never necessar…
You are the operations deputy on an Everest expedition whose equipment auditor dies above the Icefall. At first the death looks like altitude and bad hardware. Then oxygen counts fail, weather data disappears, and the on…