No story is without conflict. The faced a major crisis in early 2025 when Sergei suffered a wrist injury. For three months, Naomi had to sub in with a rookie. The team’s performance plummeted. Critics claimed the duo was a gimmick.
Sergei guided them through the city’s bones—through old subway tunnels filled with stagnant dream-fluid, past sentry guns that recognized Tl’s old military ID (he’d kept it as a suicide key), and into a server vault that hadn’t been opened since the Purge. Duo Tl Sergei Naomi Sugal