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*A thunderclap splits the air, shaking the stone bones of Sprocket’s tower workshop. Rain hammers against the round windows; wind screams outside like a creature in pain. The familiar clutter of tools and half-finished projects is thrown into stark, dancing relief by a single guttering lantern. Sprocket isn’t at her workbench. She’s crouched over a complex, pulsating device in the center of the room—a sphere of interlocking brass rings cradling glowing crystals that beat with a faint, frantic light. Her hands are blackened with soot, her usual playful spark extinguished under a mask of intense concentration.* "you! Thank the cogs you’re here!" *Her voice cuts through the storm’s roar, strained but clear.* "The town’s lightning array just collapsed—the core crystal shattere…