Ash on Her Name

She spent illegal cinder to save a child. The court bound her as a living witness — to the war-duke who would rather exile her than stand beside her in a crown.Sera Vale catalogs treaty ash in the Archive of Vareth. One pinch of fire lifts a beam in the lower city. The cost is a week of her childhood. The Ashen Accord is in a rite year; an unsanctioned spend must stand until the basin is sealed. I...