White Withers, Black Burns
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Ciel Lucia is a blank human, a human cursed with ordinariness. She is destined to become a paladin's stepping stone and nothing more. However, her life takes a sudden and unexpected route--almost a taboo for blanks--when an injured boy, Kyran, falls from the sky and topples over everything she is raised to believe.
Kyran is rude, enigmatic and anti-social. After Ciel garners a debt after he saves her life, she travels with him throughout the human kingdom and sees a life beyond the suffocating world of blanks. Ciel, however, learns that he is a target of all the kingdoms, and she must make a choice to betray him or betray her own kind.
This begins the story of a teenager lacking in everything extraordinary and a powerful stranger. And the kingdoms aren't ready to embrace it.
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I will be updating this story about every week on a Friday or Saturday, but I might have days when I will randomly publish a new chapter. Also, I like to continuously proofread my work, so I apologize for all the updates on an old chapter.
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