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All our names on fire

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SCENE 1: WAKING TO WAR

POV: Jayce Navarro | Location: Eli’s Apartment | Time: 5:12 AM | Weather: Cloudy Dawn

Jayce woke to silence, the kind that follows a storm. Sheets tangled. Skin warm. Eli still asleep beside him, breath slow, a line of light painting his cheek like a bruise from God.

Jayce rose quietly, shirtless, scarred, every movement whispering the weight of war.

He stood at the window, watching Valeburn blink into day.

Smoke curled on the horizon—some distant fire that wasn’t his. Yet.

His phone buzzed.

Unknown Number: “There’s a bounty on your head. And his.”

Jayce didn’t flinch.

He turned back to Eli and whispered, "Today, they’ll come for us. Let’s make sure they never leave."

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SCENE 2: THE GRAVEYARD OF PROMISES

POV: Eli Mercer | Location: Old Tunnel Beneath Navarro Grounds | Time: 7:35 AM

Eli followed Naomi through the underground tunnel. Their boots echoed against ancient brick, shadows stretching like old secrets.

“This used to be for moving drugs,” she said. “Now? It's for moving war.”

Eli adjusted the strap on his bulletproof vest. “How many men you got?”

Naomi smirked. “Enough to bury everyone who said I couldn’t lead.”

They emerged in a candle-lit room: a circle of weapons, blueprints, and bodies ready to die.

Eli traced a map with his finger.

“Tonight, they hit Navarro from the north. We’ll flank them from the alley south of the old church.”

Naomi looked at him. “You talk like a man who wants to survive.”

Eli: “No. I talk like a man who doesn’t want to run anymore.”

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SCENE 3: MAMA INEZ’S FINAL PROPHECY

POV: Jayce Navarro | Location: Navarro Estate Shrine Room | Time: 1:01 PM

The candles burned purple.

Jayce knelt beside Mama Inez as she poured rum into the soil and muttered in an ancient tongue.

She opened her eyes. “Your hands will carry two things today: a throne and a name soaked in blood.”

Jayce: “Which one survives?”

Inez: “Whichever one you stop loving.”

He stood.

And with the kiss of ash on his forehead, became more than king. He became sacrifice.

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SCENE 4: THE GUNS SING AT MIDNIGHT

POV: Dual (Jayce & Eli) | Location: Navarro Estate Grounds | Time: 11:59 PM — 1:00 AM

The first shot rang like a bell.

Then all hell rose.

Rico Vega’s men swarmed the gates.

Jayce fired from the rooftop. Naomi led her unit through the southern break.

Eli moved like smoke—silent, precise, deadly.

Blood smeared brick. Bullets kissed stone. Fire danced in trash barrels.

Jayce spotted Rico himself.

No mask. No armor.

Just hunger.

He jumped down from the balcony, landed hard, and ran into the fight.

Eli met him halfway.

“You take the right,” Jayce ordered.

“You take the rest,” Eli said.

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SCENE 5: ALL OUR NAMES ON FIRE

POV: Jayce Navarro | Location: Inside Navarro War Room | Time: 1:36 AM

Jayce cornered Rico in the war room.

Rico: “Knew you’d come alone.”

Jayce: “I stopped needing backup the day I started bleeding names.”

They fought—fist to jaw, elbow to rib.

Jayce took a knife to the gut. Rico took two bullets to the chest.

Jayce leaned in. Whispered, “You lost because you never loved anything enough to burn for it.”

Rico’s last breath was a curse.

Jayce collapsed.

Eli burst through the door. Bloodied. Breathing hard.

“Jayce!”

Jayce smiled. “Told you... I wouldn’t die without saying your name.”

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SCENE 6: THE COST OF LOVE

POV: Eli Mercer | Location: Hospital Corridor | Time: 3:13 AM

Jayce was in surgery.

Naomi leaned against the wall, bloodied and limping.

“You think he’ll make it?” she asked.

Eli didn’t look at her. “He has to. I already wrote our ending.”

She handed him a lighter.

“What’s this?”

Naomi: “The last fire he lit. Before the war started. Said you’d know when to use it.”

Eli looked at it. Simple. Silver. Engraved with one word:

“OURS.”

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SCENE 7: EPILOGUE — FIRE DOESN’T FORGET

POV: Jayce Navarro | Location: Six Months Later, New Valeburn | Time: 6:00 PM

The streets were cleaner. The air lighter.

Jayce walked through the new community center—kids laughing, music thumping low, Naomi running a self-defense class.

He passed by a wall. Names carved into glass.

Eli walked up behind him. Pressed a kiss to his temple.

“You okay?”

Jayce: “No. But I’m here.”

Eli: “That’s enough.”

They stood in front of the wall.

Jayce traced the names.

KEON. RICO. MAMA INEZ. THE BOY FROM THE MARKET.

Underneath, someone had spray-painted in red:

“We loved. We bled. We built.”

Jayce whispered, “And we burned.”

BOOK ONE COMES TO AN END 

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