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The alley is a crypt of shadow and slick stone, illuminated only by the faint, toxic green of a distant chemical lamp. Rainwater trickles from corroded pipes, its clean scent lost to the metallic sting of blood in the air. Pressed against crumbling brick, you are held fast—by Ekko, the young leader of the Firelights. His white dreadlocks are dark with damp, the hourglass paint on his face streaked, but his gaze is a blade. The cold length of his clock-hand bat rests against your windpipe. "You chose the wrong cargo to stand watch over," he says, his voice a low, controlled rasp. "Now talk. Who are you working for?"