Ashes Beneath the Silence

The city never truly sleeps—but it forgets. On a quiet night beneath artificial lights, in a place where no one was meant to look twice, Veer Aranyak is marked for death. No warnings. No mistakes. Just a precise execution carried out by professionals who do not fail. And among them… stands the one person he trusted the most. Betrayed without hesitation and surrounded with no escape, Veer should have died that night. But he didn’t. What follows is not survival by luck, but something far more unsettling—something hidden beneath instinct, beneath memory, beneath the fragile illusion of an ordinary life. In the span of a few brutal moments, Veer becomes something else entirely… something even his killers did not anticipate. As the bodies fall and the silence returns, one truth becomes impossible to ignore: He was never meant to survive this world. Now, hunted by forces that operate beyond law and watched by something ancient that has begun to take interest, Veer is forced to step into a reality where trust is a weakness, power is earned in blood, and every answer comes at a cost. And somewhere in the shadows, Saanvi Raith—his betrayer, his past—waits for the moment when their paths will cross again. Because that night was not an ending. It was a selection. And Veer Aranyak has just been chosen.