Arthur was fifty, tired, and forgotten. He died in a sterile hospital room, a man who had played it safe and lost everything. But death wasn't the end. He wakes up in the body of an eight-year-old boy named Kaelen, in a world where the dirt is stained with blood and the "Middle Ages" are just beginning to crawl out of the dark.
Sold to the Order of the Obsidian Veil, Kaelen is forged into a weapon. But unlike the other orphans, Kaelen has the mind of a man who knows the value of a second chance. As the world transitions from tribal warring to civilized empires, Kaelen moves through the shadows, caught between a forbidden love with a deadly rival and a conspiracy that threatens to undo the very civilization they are building.

       Lyra wasn't a scholar or a "reborn," but she was the deadliest assassin of the Nest. Seeing Silas distracted, she used the low gravity to launch herself like a spear.


       She didn't aim for Silas. She aimed for the crystal housing in his mechanical arm the bridge between his brain and the Archive.


"No!" Silas roared, but it was too late.


      Lyra's glass blade, infused with the raw Aetheria of the Archive, shattered upon impact. The explosion of energy threw her backward, but the bridge was broken. Silas was disconnected.


Chapter 56 - Chapter 56: The Glass Gambit