The broadcast began at 8:00 p.m. sharp, on every screen in Corban and Kretia.

No warning. No credits.

Just a single white feather drifting across black, then Reed Garrett’s voice (steady, exhausted, unbreakable).

“This is the story the world was never meant to see.”

The feather dissolved into footage.

Blackwood Tower penthouse, hidden cameras: Agnetha forcing the Phoenix Heart into chains while Astrid bled out on glacier ice.

Kretian ...