FORGEBORN Meera Rao runs her grandfather’s small steel fabrication workshop in Lohapuram, a city of fire and iron. She has never passed a single bad pipe. Then a secret crate from the powerful Kaal Steel explodes in her yard, and a mysterious metal sinks into her arm. Now Meera can feel every weld, every crack, and every piece of steel in the city. She can bend it too. But Kaal Steel wants that power back.

• Superhero