The Polaris Effect

Adrian Reed is the city's greatest hero!
To the world, he is Polaris; the symbol of hope that never fades, the boy who can't be broken, the light people look to when everything else goes dark.

He saves lives every day, he smiles in front of crowds that adore him, he never seems to hesitate.

But Adrian has always lived with a strange emptiness he can't explain.

A childhood memory that feels incomplete.
A name he was once told to forget.
And a space in his family that never fully made sense.

His mother never speaks about the past.

And when she does, her voice always changes when she mentions his sister.

Adrian tells himself it's nothing. Just grief; imagination, Just time passing the way it always does.

Until something happens that forces him to look back.

And once he does, nothing in his life stays simple again.

Because even heroes can have histories they were never meant to question.

And some missing pieces don't stay missing forever...