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In a world where goodness is defined by order and cruelty is justified as necessity, children are chosen as vessels-bodies meant to carry power, blame, and responsibility for a system that refuses to name itself guilty. Aven is thirteen when he is sent on his first mission, labeled special and entrusted with a role he does not yet understand. As he follows orders, he begins to notice what others cannot: the silence where people once lived, the stench of death no one else smells, and the weight of a sword that grows heavier not with blood, but with guilt. While the system praises obedience and calls it protection, Aven is forced to confront what it truly means to be "good" in a world that survives by denying responsibility. His awakening is not heroic-it is isolating, gradual, and irreversible.