They called it a circus of concrete and sky: gravity’s rules bent into loops and ramps that smiled like broken promises. I stood on the asphalt lip of the first ramp, Switch tucked under one arm, the cartridge of a different life clicking in my pocket like a loaded heartbeat. Cold air bit my cheeks. Somewhere beyond the stadium lights, the crowd—an ocean of distant hums—waited to be outrun, outflipped, outridden.