FriendlyGhooost
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Samika Orelvin and Kesar Astor were never meant to belong to the same world, let alone the same story. She is the illegitimate daughter of a condemned colonel. He is the last heir of a noble house marked by treason. Different beginnings. The same stain.
Arriving at Arx Royal Military Academy, they expect neither glory nor honour, but a future.
For Bravian seeds, the children of executed traitors, Arx is a last chance to survive. They have been dying across the kingdom for years, and now the killing has followed them through the academy's gates.
Samika insists that she and Kesar are nothing more than circumstance. Kesar has learned to live with a guilt he cannot confess.
Samika wants a future she can build on her own terms, serving as a knight without being drawn into politics. Kesar has no intention of serving the kingdom that condemned his family. He intends to change it.
Still, they are each other's only constant, bound by violence, shared secrets, and everything they refuse to name.
At Arx, staying alive is only the beginning.
The real question is what they will have to become to do it.
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Cover and banner are made by the amazing @Twisted_taleso7 ✨
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Inspiration: The Empyrean series by R. Yarros, The Shades of Magic by V. E. Schwab, and The Firebird Trilogy by C. Gray
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Content Warnings
This story contains mature and sensitive themes, including:
• graphic violence
• torture
• sexual violence (non-graphic depiction with trauma aftermath)
• psychological abuse and manipulation
• war crimes and wartime atrocities
• death, including of minors
• body horror
• dissociation
• self-destructive behavior
• abuse of power
• sexual content (18+)
Reader discretion is advised.