The first time Natasha dies, she is a child on a metal table, surrounded by cables and forbidden equations. Her father pours darkness into her from a machine that drinks light, desperate to preserve the pattern of his daughter's life. She wakes decades later in a crumbling district of a strange city, with no tubes, no restraints, and no father — only a hum in her bones and the taste of metal on her tongue. Something was done to her. Now she must learn what she's become.
