nataliaspanda
Greyroot is a city that watches.
Its cobblestone streets remember every step ever taken, and its walls keep secrets older than the academy built within them. Nothing here is as still as it appears-not the stone, not the silence, not the past.
Aila has always noticed things others don't. The way the ground feels warm beneath her shoes. The way the city seems to shift when no one is looking. At Greyroot Academy, she's taught to observe and investigate-but no one warns her what happens when the city starts answering back.
Tomas knows how to belong in Greyroot. He's charming, careful, and comes from a family whose name is woven into the city's history. What he shows the world is easy. What he hides is darker, heavier, and far more dangerous.
As strange disturbances begin to surface, Aila and Tomas are drawn into a mystery buried beneath stone and memory. Anger rises. Trust is tested. Feelings neither of them expected begin to grow in the spaces between fear and truth.
Some cities are built to last.
Greyroot was built to forget.
But not everything stays buried forever.