Melena was raised in a Logos Concord "stable community"—a clean, gray, efficient hive of data processing. Her mother was a mid-level compliance officer; her father is an erased file. At age twelve, she was flagged for "anomalous neural patterning" and placed in the Vivarium Program , ostensibly a gifted-student track, actually a long-term extraction farm for dormant magic.
Melena was raised in a Logos Concord "stable community"—a clean, gray, efficient hive of data processing. Her mother was a mid-level compliance officer; her father is an erased file. At age twelve, she was flagged for "anomalous neural patterning" and placed in the Vivarium Program , ostensibly a gifted-student track, actually a long-term extraction farm for dormant magic.