EP8 - The Crimson Fracture 🪽🔍🏰⚠️✨

Lyra demands that the clerks release her, but the Ranking Instrument keeps her hand sealed while crimson light intensifies through the fractures in her crystal wings. Reth openly says the test is hurting her, while Celeste and Kael turn the failure into public humiliation. Lyra refuses to accept that a machine hurting its subject can still be called a valid test. When the category channels die without identifying her, she tears herself free. Residual crimson energy follows the bronze floor channels and cracks the instrument’s display. Lyra’s record remains blank, and Headmaster Voss is summoned to investigate.