Ambire
Arseniy Marinov made a pact with a being beyond reality. It kept him alive. It cost him everything else.
Twelve years later, reality is cracking open. Impossible rifts bleed across the sky, and a marginalised people are being blamed for a disaster no one truly understands.
At its heart is Hidayat--a privileged boy sheltered by a family that knows the truth: he shouldn't exist. Hidayat knows what he is, even if he doesn't deserve the consequences. The world remains oblivious. Marinov does not.
As a healer, Marinov is sworn to protect life. But he lives on borrowed time, bound to carry out an order he cannot refuse: eliminate the boy whose existence is unravelling the world.
Exposing the truth would doom Hidayat. Refusing the order would doom Marinov. And every day, the world breaks a little further.
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