“Keep your distance. I am drenched in filth and the slaughter’s gore.”Darian is a man fracturing—brittle with exhaustion, stained by a violence that refuses to wash away. He wanders a world where the sun is but a fading memory, and the shadows have begun to mock his labours. He is driven by a singular, desperate ghost: Elika—the light he pursues through the rot, the beloved face that haunts his silence, and the only reason he refuses to fall.But th...