The world did not end. It restructured.

In the ruins of Montreal, two systems divide what remains of humanity, and despise each other for it. Inside the Olympic Stadium, Prester John converts scarcity into ritual, bodies into ordeals, survival into a theology of yield. Beyond it, RESO runs the infrastructure, water, corridors, labour, on pure calculation, counting human lives like fuel until the arithmetic balances.

Both systems agree on one thing: everyone must be accounted for.

Una isn't.

Dragged from the limestone cave where she was raised and branded Eighty-Four, she enters the Stadium's gauntlet — Gluttony, Avarice, Lust, Violence — each ordeal designed to prune the unstable and feed the Canon. She survives them the wrong way. She keeps breathing at the wrong rhythm. When Prester John offers her Beatification, protection in exchange for her body. She refuses. When RESO absorbs her as a variable, she refuses that too.

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