Malarie333
In a city where power defines worth, thirteen-year-old Amelia Veyl awakens with a trait no one understands-Burden, a power that grows through pain and bends the world with invisible weight. Mocked, underestimated, and afraid of what she's becoming, Amelia is taken into the Ashfall Academy, where a hardened Hunter named Arlen teaches her control-and kindness.
Beside her stands Kallen, a bright, talented cadet who becomes her closest friend. He cheers her on. He protects her. He swears he'll always stay.
But as Amelia rises, the world begins to lean toward her.
Her presence changes rooms. Her power rewrites rules. And while Arlen becomes her anchor, Kallen starts to fall behind-smiling through it, hiding the envy that grows in his chest.
By the time they leave the academy, Amelia believes she has everything she's ever lacked:
a future, a team, and someone who won't leave.
She's wrong.