fair_phantom
Not your typical lesbian age‑gap story.
For half a century, a string of unsolved deaths has cast a long shadow over the four kingdoms. A single black dahlia is left beside every victim--a silent, haunting signature no authority will acknowledge. Those in power dismiss the pattern as random misfortune, sweeping the clues away behind locked doors and lockdown orders, while the threat draws ever closer to the heart of the Aether Academy.
Professor Alice Moore refuses to accept the official story. When the highest authority at the academy is found slain, the same dark flower placed nearby, she realizes no one within the system will ever uncover the truth. Defying every rule, she sets out on a forbidden journey that will take her across each realm, tracing the dahlia's trail of secrets no one is meant to follow.
Amyrrh Malvane, a quiet student overlooked by the academy's rigid ranking system, joins her team at the last minute. Her uncanny stillness and sharp intuition prove invaluable on the road, and as they face danger after danger, an unlikely bond takes root between them--one tangled in their years‑long age gap, heavy duty, and a silent, aching attraction neither dares name.
They travel through mist‑bound waters, ancient moon‑lit woods, and frozen peaks, piecing together old legends and forgotten history. At the center of it all lies the story of a vanished guardian, and a broken hierarchy that has kept the kingdoms divided for generations. The deeper Alice digs, the more she realizes the answers she seeks may not be what she expects--and the truth could burn everything she believes in to the ground.