BLACK HALO: ANGELBORNE

For three centuries, Aurelia Angelborne has run. Half angel, half human, she is hunted by the heavens for existing outside their laws. Every time she finds a home, the angels descend. Every time she loves, he dies.

When elves invade the mortal realm and slaughter the family she has sworn to protect, Aurelia stops running. Her rage awakens a power she has always feared-and she becomes the White Wind, the Wanderers' ultimate weapon. For twenty-seven years, she leads a genocidal campaign against the elves, reclaiming the continent one bloody battle at a time. She does not question the war. She does not ask why the elves came.

Then she meets an elf woman who tells her the truth: the elves were banished to Hell by the gods. They are starving. Dying. And the war was never about conquest. It was a suicide mission designed to provoke Aurelia into becoming the Dark Angel-a vessel for cosmic balance.

Now the woman who has spent centuries running must decide who she truly is: the weapon the gods engineered, the monster the humans worship, or the person she was before she lost everything.

And somewhere in the woods, a musician is singing a song about a woman he has loved in another life. He does not remember her. She cannot forget him.

Angelborne is a dark, action-packed fantasy short story and the first installment in the Black Halo series. It explores heavy themes including divinity, extreme violence, mental health struggles, suicide, explicit sexual content, and graphic deaths depicted on the page. Reader discretion is strongly advised.
Aurelia narrates in first person. Third person is used where she isn't present.
*** : Time shift.
... : regular scene shift.
- : dream, memory, hallucination, abrupt scene or perspective shift.
-⁂-: Aurelia's first person POV.
-⟪⟫-Third person limited POV.