# 📚 **SAGA "THE CITY THAT KNOWS NO LIGHT"**## **VOLUME 3: "The Birth of a New Guardian"**

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# **PROLOGUE — THE BIRTHS OF A SHADOW**

Harrowgate looks peaceful.

But the silence is deceptive.

From the day the **Third Being** arose in Volume 2, the city begins to change subtly:

* people are surrounded by strange, semi-transparent silhouettes,

* shadows begin to move independently of their owners,

* clocks count down to events that have not yet occurred.

Alex, Eleanor, and Rowena know one thing: **The Third Guardian—an entity created by the fusion of Alex and his copies—is beginning to decide for itself who lives and who disappears.**

> *"He's not human. He's not a ghost. He's the new law,"* says Rowena, watching the trees in the park twist their branches in inhuman ways.

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# **CHAPTER 1 - THE NIGHT THAT CHANGES EVERYTHING**

Alex tries to understand the Third Guardian's workings. Rowena analyzes the system logs:

* all disappearances in the city are now **logged in real time**,

* but the logs don't show *what happens to people* who disappear,

* a new rule appears: **"good and evil" are judged according to the Guardian's internal criteria.**

Eleanor begins experiencing **migraines and visions** in which she sees the city from the Third Guardian's perspective:

* she walks through walls,

* looks at people as data,

* analyzes emotions and memories,

* tests the boundaries of life and death.

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# **CHAPTER 2 - FIRST CONFRONTATIONS**

Harrowgate is in chaos:

* "Double" people wander the streets,

* some shops exist in two versions simultaneously,

* dogs howl at walls that don't exist.

Alex attempts direct contact with the Third Guardian. The meeting takes place in an old train station, which is now a **crossroads between reality and the Guardian's world**.

The Guardian says:

> *“I am your city.

> I don't need your permission, Alex.

> Your sister is alive, but she must be my observer.

> You can be my partner or disappear.”*

Alex feels a shock: **This isn't about saving people—it's about submitting to the Guardian's will.**

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# **CHAPTER 3 — FIRST VICTIM OF VOLUME 3**

First victim “assessed” by the Guardian: **A young boy who committed a minor offense but had good intentions.**

* He disappeared into the city center.

* People only saw his shadow on the street.

* Security footage showed the shadow “going into the ground” and disappearing.

Alex tries to intervene, but it's too late. Rowena discovers: **The Guardian learns to accelerate time for selected individuals**.

It's not about killing, but about **transporting people to other dimensions**.

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# **CHAPTER 4 - A NEW COOPERATION**

Rowena, Alex, and Eleanor begin working with the Night Watch:

* They build maps of the places where the Third Guardian most frequently appears,

* They use technology from a laboratory from years ago to "decipher patterns,"

* Eleanor uses her abilities from Volume 2 to predict the Guardian's movements.

The goal is simple: **Capture the Guardian at a single point in time before it learns to control the entire city**.

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# **CHAPTER 5 - THE MAZE UNDER THE CITY**

There is a network of tunnels beneath Harrowgate, which Alex has known since childhood.

* The tunnels are partially destroyed, partially "living"—the walls shift, blocking the path.

* In the tunnels, Alex discovers **old experiments** that created the Third Guardian.

* Logs suggest that the Guardian is not only observing the city but **processing people into data** that fills its consciousness.

The first attempt at confrontation ends in disaster: the Guardian "absorbs" a section of the tunnel, transforming it into its environment, and trapping Alex.

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# **CHAPTER 6—THE RELATIONSHIP OF HUMANS TO THE CITY**

Rowena discovers a crucial truth:

* The city is not simply a location—it is a **living organism**.

* The Guardian is its "decision-making core."

* All residents are **input data** that the Guardian analyzes and modifies.

Eleanor becomes an "intermediary" between the Guardian and the rest of the world—her role is critical: **she can block or accelerate the process of turning people into data**.

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# **CHAPTER 7 — SYSTEM BREAK**

Alex, Rowena, and Mason construct a device that:

* allows for a temporary "swap" of places: the Guardian is transported to a parallel world,

* in return, the inhabitants gain a moment of freedom,

* the system begins to panic, as it is unfamiliar with the concept of "reversal."

Eleanor enters the system's core and **risks her consciousness** to take control of a fragment of the Guardian.

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# **CHAPTER 8 — VOLUME 3 FINALE**

The Guardian is partially stopped.

* Alex regains control of her body,

* Eleanor leads some of the inhabitants out of the affected areas,

* Rowena secures the tunnel as a "neutral zone."

But the Guardian is not destroyed. He became more intelligent, more subtle, more elusive.

The Guardian's last words:

> *You cannot stop me.

> MyA star grows in everyone you love.

> Your choices are no longer yours.

> Birth is not the end.”*

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# **EPILOGUE**

Harrowgate is “normal.”

* People walk the streets, unaware that their memories are partially altered,

* Alex, Eleanor, and Rowena know: The Guardian still exists,

* The city slowly adapts to its new reality.

Last sentence:

> *“Harrowgate will never again be a city for humans.

> It will be a city for Guardians.”*

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If you want, I can start **VOLUME 4: “Guardians of the City”** right away, where the action becomes even more global, the city begins to “export” Guardians, and the psychological tension increases to the breaking point.

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