Becoming Hollow
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Dark Fantasy ✦ Psychological ✦ Slow Burn ✦ Morally Grey Characters
Skyleen Winters is Candidate Forty-Four.
Three years of service are mandatory, and there are only two ways out: unfit, or disfigured.
Her father hires a Vanguard captain to make sure she never becomes a soldier.
It would've been an excellent plan if he'd chosen literally anyone else.
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