BatGrayson1996
Ryn Varr survives by being invisible. Disguised as a boy in the border town of Brackwater, she works whatever jobs she can to stay unnoticed-because in Aeolothis, only nobles wield magic, and the strange, quiet distortions that happen around her could get her killed. Flames sputter out when she passes. Wind collapses into sudden silence. Water forgets its shape in her hands.
When a political envoy disappears and inquisitors descend on the town, Ryn's unstable powers flare in public. She flees-helped by Kael, a silver-haired runaway noble from the Air Kingdom who senses something impossibly wrong with the winds around "him." Drawn together against their better judgment, they fall in with three other fugitives: a fire warrior heir, a water healer who abandoned her order, and an earth scholar exiled for studying forbidden magic.
As they travel, the continent begins to unravel. Storms fail, volcanoes behave erratically, tides defy the moon, and stone veins crack beneath entire cities. Every disturbance points toward the ancient wound at Aeolothis's center-Vyreth Hollow, where the Fifth Element was destroyed centuries ago.
When the group is cornered, Ryn's powers erupt fully. Air collapses. Fire extinguishes. Water disintegrates. Stone fractures. She is not a normie at all-she is the last of the Vyreth, a bloodline the Four Kingdoms united to exterminate.
Terrified of herself, Ryn is captured by the Accord after Kael, trying to save her life, hands her over. His hope for mercy becomes a devastating betrayal when the rulers immediately order her death. Ryn escapes, heartbroken and hunted, leaving behind the boy who tried to save her and doomed them both.
Now, with the world's magic failing and kingdoms preparing for war, Ryn must choose: keep running, or face the truth of what she is becoming-the silence powerful enough to break the world.