Every debt demands fire.
Some wounds do not fade; they grow roots. Some truths do not stay buried; they wait, patient as embers.
Lena has lived in the space between being seen and being believed, where silence grows thick and shame becomes a second skin. She knows the slow poison of a love that binds and breaks in the same breath, and the rare, fragile warmth of something that stays when the rest has gone.
Drawn back toward the shadows of Mercy Gates with an unexpected ally at her side, she steps into a place where justice is not a gift but a blade - one she must learn to wield. Beyond that threshold lie the ghosts of what broke her, the shape of what she could still become, and the question of whether her fire will destroy... or clear the ground for something new to grow.
This is not a story about saving the world. It is about surviving it when the world has forgotten you. It is about standing before what hurt you, looking it in the eye, and deciding what deserves to burn.
Ashes Don't Weep is a testament for the unseen and the unavenged - a quiet, relentless flame for those left to bleed, and for the rising that comes when silence ends.
