When the city of Aurum discovers that its governing system has been secretly harvesting tiny fragments of every citizen’s life to accumulate power and extended longevity, historian Lena Corvin helps shatter the hidden Vault that stores millions of stolen years. The collapse of Central Time throws society into chaos, forcing its people to confront freedom, inequality, and the burden of self governed existence without a controlling clock. In rebuilding through voluntary synchronization and radical transparency, Aurum learns that true stability does not come from controlling time, but from choosing together how to live within it.
