Vidjo Mete Qira Fort [ PLUS › ]

Rohan paid him double and went alone.

In the central chamber stood the Qira—the tower. A spiraling pillar of the same black stone, wrapped in copper veins that had not oxidized. At its peak, a shattered crystal dome let in the bruised purple sky of the approaching monsoon. Vidjo Mete Qira Fort

Its bones were fused to the stone. Its ribcage housed a small, spherical object—a battery. Still humming. Still glowing with a faint, sickly blue light. Rohan paid him double and went alone

He saw it then. A memory trapped in the stone. an old fisherman named Bhola

His guide, an old fisherman named Bhola, refused to step within a mile of the fort.