The desert doesn't offer answers. It just keeps walking.
Ashton measures the world in data and distance - a man who stopped believing when belief stopped working. Ezren carries faith like water in cupped hands - quietly, carefully, never sure how much is left, only that it hasn't run out yet.
Together they cross a wasteland that was once civilization, searching for a settlement that may not exist. What they find instead is harder - each other's questions, an old man who keeps a dying fire, a stranger who trades mercy for compass needles, and the slow, unwelcome possibility that the world isn't as empty as it looks.
Dust and Rain is a story about two men walking. And everything that happens inside that silence.
For readers who have ever sat in a ruined chapel and dared something to answer.