The Kindling

🔥 THE FIRE HAS BEGUN. NOW WE LEARN WHAT IT CONSUMES. 🔥

Three weeks after The Convergence.

The Gifted are no longer a secret. They are a target.

In Lumina-a city of neon spires and forgotten ancestors-factions rise to control, weaponize, or destroy the newly awakened. The Dominion sends its temporal assassins. The Purity Wardens mobilize. The Dark Covenant hunts for vessels. And in the shadows of Beastwood, something ancient is waking.

Five strangers share a connection they don't yet understand.

KOFI can rewind time-but each use costs a memory he can't afford to lose.
ZURI swims in the city's data-streams, fighting an enemy who erases souls.
AMARI builds shields of geometric light to protect the helpless.
OLU commands the storm-and fears the day it commands him.
ESI heals with golden hands that grow dimmer with every life she saves.

They didn't choose to be heroes. They chose to survive.

But survival demands sacrifice. The Debt collects-every power used costs a piece of self. Lose too much, and you become Hollow. Empty. A vessel waiting to be filled by something hungry.

As the city fractures and the Dominion tightens its grip, these five must decide: remain survivors hiding in the shadows, or become symbols worth following.

The Kindling has begun.

And the first thing it burns is the truth.

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This story is being cross-posted to Royal Road under the username MICHAELANTONIOINVICTUS along with the first book LUMINA NIGHTS

All future stories will be found there. Thank you