Ashes of the Phoenix Teaser #1
If someone had told me I’d become the vessel for an ancient, sentient magical relic bent on forcing the world to choose between rebirth or ruin... I would’ve laughed. Then cried. Then made a spreadsheet about it.
But I didn’t get to prepare. I didn’t get to plan.
I just had to be. Raw, uncertain, afraid, and still moving forward.
The Ashborne didn’t want perfection.
It wanted conviction. It didn’t care if I shattered. It only cared that I stood.
Forged in the first age of wands, bound by blood and will—The Ashborne waited.
I don’t know what the world will become after all of this. I only know I chose it with open eyes and open hands.
And Draco stood beside me…not out of debt or guilt, but choice.
And somehow, that was enough.