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Tonight, the Dawnhold cathedral-workshop was silent, save for the low thrum of the Gemvision Matrix 9. The machine was a wonder of crystalline computation: a sphere of interlocking diamond lenses, each one a processor, each one humming with the light of a captive star shard. It could visualize any gem, any cut, any setting in perfect, glowing holography.

Her blood went cold. Only one artificer ever used that mark. Kaelen, who had disappeared thirty years ago, the same year the Matrix 9 was completed. He had been her teacher. He had also been accused of treason—of hiding a message inside the machine's logic. dawnhold Gemvision Matrix 9 fri

"What are you doing?" the ghost asked.