Mangled || Novabearer

It's been almost a year since the war. Since Clancy stormed Dema's city walls with the hopes of breaking the cycle and ending the Bishops' reign for good.

Only to become one himself. He's learned how to survive, how to be still--and how to belong. The letters he writes are short and not so sweet. They're calculated, hitting the reader--his reader--where he knows it'll hurt.

Clancy finds himself coping with his new life by writing letters to Torchbearer, and it isn't love he's looking for. He doesn't write about rescue or freedom. He yearns for something worse, forming a new pattern he can't break.

A new pattern that neither of them can break, because when Clancy calls, Torchbearer answers.