Marked From Birth
—thousands of derelict ships, some made of iron, some of glass, all caught in a permanent, silent graveyard around the planet.
"We aren't the first to escape," Mara said, her voice hollow as she stared at the monitors. "We're just the latest."
The derelicts were a grim mirror of their own history. They saw ships that looked like the Sun-Forge’s spires, and ships that looked like the Great Engine’s older brothers. All of them were cold. All of them were empty.
"The Siren didn't just let them go," Audrey realized, her eyes fixed on a massive, shattered vessel that bore a striking resemblance to the First King’s original bunker. "She hunted them. Look at the puncture marks. Those aren't from as
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