The Celestial Weathervane of Conduits

In a world where emotions power the grid, a single glitch can level a city.

South Korea is the pinnacle of the future-a utopia built on Conduit Engineering. Here, magic isn't a fairy tale, it's a commodity. Human feelings are harvested, bottled, and sold to power everything from skyscrapers to the very air people breathe. But the system only works if the source is stable.

Aluna is anything but stable.

A student from Jakarta with bipolar disorder, she is one of the rare Unbound Conduits. Her emotions manifest as the Celestial Weathervane: when she is high the aurora flares, when she is low the world freezes. To the Magic Safety Task Force (MSTF), she is a ticking bomb that needs to be 'stabilized'-a polite term for stripping the soul.

Desperate to keep her magic and her mind intact, Aluna was chosen to represent her university for an exchange program in Seoul-the most monitored city on Earth. Hidden behind her textbooks and protected by her fierce best friend, Aluna must navigate a city of sensors designed to hunt her down.

But Seoul holds a secret more dangerous than any detector. Among the elite 'monsters' who govern the city's energy, lives a Resonant Void-a person built of silence who can swallow Aluna's storms whole. He is the only one who can save her from the MSTF, and the only one capable of erasing her entirely.

In the city of a thousand lights, the most dangerous thing you can do is feel.

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