The Academy's Darkest Gift

By Vivienne Ashcroft

A student disappears. The Council announces a transfer.
Wren finds evidence she did not transfer.

Kade follows Wren to the archive on the third day without
being asked. She says: I didn't ask you. He says: I know.
This is the first time either of them has chosen the other
without being required to.

In the Council's founding documents they find the answer
to why their gift is identical. Meridian, head of the Council
of Seven, placed a binding on both their bloodlines four hundred
years ago specifically to eventually produce a Paired Nightbinder.
She built their families to produce them. She has been waiting.

Kade reads this and his face starts to close. Wren says:
Whatever you're about to decide, decide it facing me.
Not away from me. He is still for a moment. Then he turns around.

She says: What are you deciding?
He says: I'm deciding whether to be angry at her or at myself.
She says: You can be both. There's enough to go around.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H468B1BR
• ISBN13: 9798180084804
• Release Date: June 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"