The Earth Below. Mirantibus Trilogy, #2

She thought finding Mirantibus was the hardest part. She was wrong. Below the floating city, the world is fracturing - fires, land seizures, calamities no one predicted. Underneath them, Vitamae finds a pattern. Not a conspiracy, but a culture: powerful people across nations who never need to coordinate, because they all know that if you destroy the record, the crime never happened. In the mountains of Ritarin she finds the answer.
The people there have carried intelligence for centuries in braided fiber and knotted cord - a database that cannot be seized, a backup that cannot be erased. Her journal works the same way. Every entry is evidence that someone saw, someone remembered, someone wrote it down. The powerful erased. She preserved. That was the war - not with ships, but with ink. The Earth Below is the second book in the Mirantibus Trilogy - the moment when wonder becomes something you fight for.