Aetherion Academia #1: Shadows of Rebirth
"We will not be silenced. We will not be erased. We will not become part of the ash."
I pressed my palm against the twisted bed frame and felt the metal respond, cold and dead and somehow still holding the frequency of the life that had ended there. The contract scar pulsed, silver tendrils crawling toward my elbow, and for a moment I saw her, the girl from the diary, the scholarship student who had believed in kindness and found only knives, her face flickering in the ash like a candle flame before it dies.
"Help me," she whispered, and her voice came from everywhere and nowhere, from the ash, from the walls, from the space between my own heartbeat and the Blood Moon's approach.
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