The Seventh Vessel (City of One Tongue, Band 1) - Softcover

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They built the dome to take.
They did not know the body remembers.

Beneath the gold-lit ceiling, Nara has been still for five years. Lady Kadin's clients pay to watch performances built from memories that aren't theirs—extracted from seven captive girls, polished in glittering water, sold as dreams. The girls are fading. The marks deepen each cycle. The water is starting to fail.

Below the frequency the gold can read, a buried lineage still listens through Nara. A bond forced into her at eight years old. Five words she has never spoken aloud.

When a stranger arrives outside the wall—an enemy of the operation, with grief in his footfall and her name in his mouth—Nara has a choice. Stay still. Or finally use what has been waiting in her hands.

The gold has taken everything it can read.
What it cannot read is what will end it.

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