❰ BOOK 1 of 𝐀𝐒𝐇𝐁𝐔𝐑𝐍 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐒 𝐓𝐑𝐈𝐋𝐎𝐆𝐘 STATUS: COMPLETED - UNDER SLOW EDITING. Sage had taught herself to never trust what she could not see. How could she, when the shadows of her past and her mother's unexplainable paranoia kept their lives shrouded in secrecy? For years, she forced herself to ignore the memories she could not understand. She convinced herself that there was no escape from the uncertainty. Everything changes the day after her mother's burial. A stranger arrives uninvited and brings a revelation that witches like her exist and that they belong to a hidden realm known as Ashburn. Pieces of her past, the secrecy, and the strange feeling had always been missing had finally begin to fall into place. For once, Sage allows herself to believe that maybe, in this world of witches might offer clarity and a place where her uncertainties can finally rest. Yet even with the truth finally within reach, something darker begins to stir. As the veil begins to lift, a long-buried truth rises from the depths. Its real meaning however, remains hidden, waiting for the moment it can reveal what Sage was never meant to forget. STORY WRITTEN IN TAGLISH (Tagalog - English) Started: 07/24/2024 Ended: 12/ 27/ 2025

❰ BOOK 2 of 𝐀𝐒𝐇𝐁𝐔𝐑𝐍 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐒 𝐓𝐑𝐈𝐋𝐎𝐆𝐘 STATUS: SOON They say secrets are safer in the dark. Don't they? Too bad for them-Sage has always been a little too good at seeing through the bullshit. Now stuck in the realm of Ashburn, she's supposed to be honing her magick and playing the part of the dutiful student. But Sage doesn't do scripts. She's sharp, stubborn as hell, and far too reckless for her own good. While her tongue cuts deeper than her silver blade, she's learning the hard way that being perceived as the smartest and the rarest witch in the castle is just a nice way of getting a target painted on your back. The target becomes literal when Sage is "intentionally" chosen for the Trials of Ascendancy-a grand challenge to the realm that occurs once a decade. Sage is an apprentice. Emphasis on 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘦. Calling her selection an "honor" is useless to her; it makes zero sense for a girl with unstable powers to be ranked alongside the realm's top prodigies for a shot at becoming the next Supreme Witch. It's fishy, it's dangerous, and it is almost certainly funny to her. But if winning the Trials is the only way to unlock the secrets she's been sniffing out? She's in. Sage has always relied on her reckless wits to get her through; sometimes they get her lucky, and sometimes they just get her bloodied. But as the silent ghosts in the Academy halls begin to haunt, she realizes she isn't just fighting to win-she's fighting to keep the dark from swallowing her whole. And, if she has the time, maybe keeping everyone's sanity intact, too. [S O O N] DATE STARTED: Jan 1, 2026 DATE COMPLETED: ---