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The year was 2493. Earth’s surface had long been abandoned, and humanity survived on floating rig-cities above the dead seas. The largest of them was the SS Michelle , a massive refinery-ship named after the engineer who first cracked the atmospheric carbon-to-fuel formula.

“Toll?” she whispered.

The screen flickered, and Elara saw them: towering silhouettes made of asphalt and flame, standing on a pitch-black shore that had no right to exist beneath the ocean floor. Ss Michelle -2493- More Oil jpg