Chapter 4 · free to read
It didn't burn like something I borrowed. It burned like it was glad to be handed over.
Borrowed fire runs out. Given fire doesn't — because someone chose to keep it alive.
Every kid they wrote off as 'given up'… their willpower was never gone. Just locked away where nobody could hand it back.
Freely given fire can't be stolen. But what happens when a whole prison of it is set loose at once — and only a thief is standing in its path?
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