Phoenix | Garrick Tavis | Fourth Wing *ON HOLD*
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A dragon without its rider is a tragedy, a rider without their dragon is dead. Welcome, to the Fourth Wing.
Status: ON HOLD 9/22/25
Samara (REDACTED)-Melgren finds herself entering the Rider's Quadrant at Basgaith War College against her will, after years of preparation from General Melgren, and by years she means only six.
Samara doesn't remember the first fourteen years of her life, and found herself waking up from a coma in the hospital.
When she joins the riders quadrant, she finds herself immediately infatuated with a third-year rider with a rebellion mark. Someone who should hate her guts, but he doesn't, instead he's just as curious about her as she is about him.
Also, Melody Durran swears Samara's name is something different, since she claims to recognize her, but Samara has no idea who she is.
FOURTH WING BELONGS TO REBECCA YARROS.
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She crossed the Parapet with her eyes closed. No one knew her name. Not really. Not the riders, not the commandant. Not even the boy she once knew, who now leads the very quadrant she's been thrown into. Aeliana Sorynne is a survivor. Marked by magic, scarred by secrets, raised in the shadows of rebellion. Now, she enters Basgiath War College under a name no one remembers - carrying nothing but a rune, a memory, and the skills of someone who should've died years ago. Assigned to Fourth Wing, Tail Section, Second Squad, Aeliana must navigate brutal training, suspicious cadets, and the heavy eyes of dragons that seem to see more than they should. She's not here to be chosen. She's here to endure. But surviving is never that simple - not when her past walks the same halls, not when dragons are watching, and not when trust could mean everything... or cost her everything.
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