Ash and Lotus

Before the Black Order became the battlefield it's known to be, there were two soldiers still learning what it meant to survive it.

At eighteen, Chiasa Amane is already one of the Order's youngest Generals - brilliant, detached, and terrifyingly efficient. When a mission leaves her presumed dead, she returns months later changed: silent, unresponsive, and hollowed out by something even Hevlaska can't explain.

Sixteen-year-old Kanda Yuu doesn't believe in miracles - or attachments. But when he's tasked with watching over her recovery, he starts to see pieces of himself in her silence. He tells himself it's pity. It isn't.

Set before the canon events of D.Gray-man, this is the untold story of two weapons forged by war, learning what it means to feel again - and what it costs to do so.