In a dark alley of the ancient desert metropolis of Wellspring City, a man is quietly vaporized by a thing he will never understand. Magic is to blame, and the technocratic Dynamic Brotherhood will hold the entire city's arcane community accountable with a broken-door inquisition if the culprit is not found. Baffled by the blackened body, the City Watch hire a gray-market consult. They call the Beast of Sector Sixteen - the notorious (and perennially...