Chapter 2.
Crisis Vault. Year 2092.
Elysia had spent years quietly studying Luminus.
Not just its history, but its patterns—How it worked.
What it hid.

She just wanted people to feel real again.

But no one listened.

They called her strange.
Some kids whispered she was “glitching.”

Then one night, buried inside an old database of school files and censored archives, she found it:

An old manuscript.
Handwritten. No name. No date.
But filled with the same doubts that haunted her.

"If truth is filtered, is it still truth?"

It lead her to something called the Crisis Vault.
A hidden chamber beneath the city — sealed after the First Collapse.

No records.
No coordinates.
But real.

Elysia looked up.
And for the first time in her life, she felt something unfamiliar.

Fear.

(To be continued…)