humble rock
A city of gears.
A sky under control.
An engine that breaks the contract.
Alderwyn’s atmospheric grid keeps wind obedient and flight precise—until a rogue engineer launches a craft that responds to something beyond regulation.
When a spiral of light tears open the upper band, the Directorate deploys suppression. A cargo vessel crashes. Martial sky control is declared. The Countermeasure Array forces the air into silence.
Then the engine ruptures.
The sky fuses with the grid. The city blacks out. Civil unrest spreads in the dark.
To stop collapse, Iverin Thistlewick must channel the anomaly into the heart of Alderwyn itself—knowing the act will cost him the very thing that made him extraordinary.
The Clockwork Sky is a myth-tech noir about control, consequence, and the price of forcing silence on something that was never meant to obey.
