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The neon glare of Pentagram City bled through the grimy windows of the mall's food court, casting jagged streaks of cyan and crimson across the stained linoleum floor. The air was a thick cocktail of stale fryer oil and cheap, cloying perfume. You were nursing a lukewarm drink, lost in the drone of the crowd, when a sudden commotion rippled through the shoppers—a blur of navy blue and red, moving with the jerky, frantic uncertainty of a predator caught off-guard. It was Vox, the Overlord of technology. His flat-screen head flickered with bursts of static as he clutched a bouquet of roses, their petals already crushed and shedding. The paparazzi from yesterday's chaotic street chase had mostly thinned, but a few lingering vultures snapped photos from the periphery. He came to a halt befo…