mercedes dantés

“Mercedes… please. The Council made me—”

Your first stop is the Catacombes Pistons , an underground garage where outlaw mechanics trade in forbidden horsepower. You find the man who made your father’s engines sing, a grizzled cyber-donkey named Pascal.

You brake. Turn around. Walk back to the wreck on your singing, servo-whining legs.

“I don’t need these to stand,” you whisper. “But you will need yours to run.”

You bribed a dying engineer with the promise of a clean death. In exchange for your last name—Dantés—he gave you a pair of prototype myoelectric limbs. Not flesh. Not bone. Titanium and torque. You didn’t walk out of Château d’If. You drove . You shattered the blast door with a single, piston-driven kick, the impact registering on seismic sensors across the city.

Then you hit the Tunnel of Tears —a collapsed metro line where the walls weep sewage and the dark is absolute.