Bound by darkness
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Last published Tue, Nov 25, 2025
"At the end of the day, you witness so much horror that you become as dark as the world you were trying to save."
And when Kiara steps into a fight that isn't hers - a war whispered in alleyways and cloaked in lies - she'll find the truth isn't light or dark. It's the space between, where heroes break and monsters remember they were once human.
Because in the shadows, sides don't matter. Only survival does. And the longer she stays, the more the darkness will whisper her name - until she can't tell if she's fighting for the world, or becoming part of the very thing she swore to stop.
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