At midnight, lightning strikes the control tower. The AI fails, and sandstorms surge, threatening to overload the grid. If the panels short-circuit, the entire Sahyadri region will plunge into darkness—and the 10,000 villagers relying on it for irrigation will lose their lifeline. Desperate, Akhila cuts her communication array and grabs her father’s vintage compass, a relic she once mocked as “antique junk.”