Lodestar
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In the smog-choked depths of an Imperial city, The Signless is cornered by indecision—prey to the Empire’s hunters for his sermons, his blood, and his defiance.
The Signless expects death to greet him like a friend. Instead, what greets him gives him a strange pause—a line of violet blood that trails to an alley. What follows isn’t an arrest or a trap. It’s an offering of peace, of kindness; something the injured Orphaner has never known.
That moment lingers. Neither of them understands it yet, but it marks the beginning: not of capture, not of mercy, but of something far more dangerous—recognition.
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- Part 1 of Lodestar
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In a quiet city where rain slicks the cobblestones and the light fractures through stained glass, a priest named Silas Vantas becomes an unexpected lodestar for Orpheus Ampora, a semi-retired mafia boss haunted by a lifetime of violence and regret. Seeking solace in anonymous confessionals, Orpheus slowly allows the priest’s patient presence into his carefully guarded life alongside the quiet, enduring power of two souls finally recognizing one another.
Part of the Lodestar series, though it can be read as a standalone.
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- Part 2 of Lodestar