This wound breathes corruption through its sewers, sells memories through wires, and forgets people faster than it buries them.

She came here chasing a ghost: a sister swallowed by the city's silence.

He never left; he's part of the rot, a former cop turned fixer who knows how this place works, and how it breaks people.

Together, they follow threads no one wants pulled: a name whispered in dead neighborhoods, a face blurred in every surveillance feed, a secret that doesn't just threaten the city's order, it sustains it. As they drift deeper into the underlayers, the question isn't who's guilty.

It's who's real.

And who gets to leave.