You've been here before.The words are carved into the first step of a stairway that shouldn't exist, beneath an observatory that wasn't on any map, in a world where the sky has started bleeding.Zane Carter doesn't remember. But the pillar at the center of the ruined dome hums in rhythm with his heartbeat. The symbols spiraling up its surface shift when he walks into the room. And his own reflection caught in shards of broken glass is screaming silently, trying to warn him of something he can't hear.He is the Anchor. The one who holds the loop together. The one who has lived this nightmare before. Thousands of times. And every single time, he has died without remembering.Now he's back at the top of the stairway with a team of strangers who feel disturbingly familiar: a physicist whose smirk hides a dangerous obsession, a teenage prodigy who's been drawing the symbols since he was six, a soldier who seems to know exactly how this ends. And somewhere far below, beneath seven impossible vaults, a Core waits for Zane to make a choice.The same choice he's made before.The same choice he's always failed.But this time, someone or something has left a warning carved into the stone:Don't let the child touch the Core.The loop is tightening. The vaults are waking up. And the question isn't just whether Zane can survive.It's whether he can remember what he's supposed to do... before the sky finishes falling.