The golden sky trembled.
Data streams rippled through the air like rivers of light, bending around the two figures standing in the center of the King’s Domain — Leon Vale and Dr. Kiera Lang.
To Kiera, the Domain was breathtaking.
Endless plains of crystal and circuitry stretched to a horizon that shimmered like molten glass. Floating monoliths hummed with energy above, shifting like constellations of living data. It was the most advanced construct she’d ever seen — and the most dangerous.
But what truly unsettled her wasn’t the world.
It was Leon.
He stood before her, barehanded, the air around him vibrating with a low, electric hum. His eyes burned gold — not glowing softly like before, but alive, pulsing, almost sentient. The light beneath his skin flickered like veins of lightning
