Ned Vale's final year at Avalon Academy has begun, and adulthood is no longer a distant idea.

Final assessments, guild sponsorship, Crown oaths, branch declarations, and the first true shape of his future all close around him. But Ned refuses to be narrowed into one tidy box. With Gear Company beside him, old friends returning, and Vale & Company opening its doors, he begins the life he has been building toward: inventor, maker, tuner, and servant of the Crown on his own terms.