One stroke of red ink, and a village stops existing — at least on paper. Ria doesn't find out until the water finds it too. A junior cartographer for the authoritarian Concord of Measure, she's spent her career trusting that the map is the truth. Then guilt sends her chasing a fugitive shard of living ink beyond the edge of her own charts, into a world the Concord insists doesn't exist: a hidden Delta full of hand-drawn magic, River-Walker Nomads, and a small, strange dragon named Cipher who guides through uncertainty instead of commanding it. Hunted by her former superior's drones, Ria has to unlearn everything Measure ever taught her about fixed lines and fixed futures — before the Concord pours a machine straight through the heart of the one place that ever asked her to choose rather than obey.
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