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The balance of Flame and stone

The Balance of Flame and Stone By BadRhitzu Born beneath the blood-colored Spiral Moon during the fabled Crimson Eclipse, twin siblings Yvonne and Kaizen entered the world as miracles or threats. Yvonne was flame incarnate, a wielder of impossible magic tied to soul and memory. Kaizen, he’s elder by mere breaths, possessed inhuman strength and a mind untouched by magic, yet bound to the earth like a living monolith. Their very existence tilted the balance of the world. To prevent catastrophe, the ancient Watchers cast six Veils of Suppression over the newborns binding their true selves, fragmenting their memories, and hiding the past lives they once lived as Ashweaver and Kael’Vorr, the legendary Veilborn. Seventeen years later, the world stirs once more. When an unseen room reveals itself deep within the fortress-city of Vaelcrest, the twins begin a slow and irreversible unraveling. As one Veil cracks, then another, the siblings must face not external monsters first but the suppressed truths of who they really are. Their powers return not through brute force, but through emotional reckoning: grief, forgiveness, rage, love, and sacrifice. Each Veil they shatter awakens something more ancient and more dangerous. Now hunted by the very Watchers who once swore to protect them, Yvonne and Kaizen journey across forgotten lands, into flame deserts, stone labyrinths, and across time-echoing ruins, seeking answers buried beneath their own skin. But some memories were hidden for a reason. And as the final Veil trembles, the Spiral Moon bleeds again. Will the twins restore balance to a fractured world? Or will they become the storm that ends it?
BadRhitzu · 4.2K Views

Fragmented fugitive

Seven strangers' memory fragments are embedded in his mind, and the tech giant that put them there is hell-bent on erasing him. Renowned neuroscientist Alex Reyes awakens in a sterile medical facility, his mind a terrifying blank slate. A sudden, visceral "flashback" – becoming a dancing girl in a Mumbai slum – reveals the horrifying truth: the implant in his brain isn't a cure. It's fragments of seven strangers' lives. Worse, NeuroSync, the company he worked for, has launched a global hunt to eliminate him. Alex's only ally is Lena Kovac, a jaded former war correspondent who scents the story of a lifetime. Together, they race across continents, from neon-lit cities to shadowed alleyways. Alex battles a torrential "memory labyrinth": one moment he's a scarred veteran in St. Petersburg, the next an elderly Parisian guarding buried secrets. The hacker skills of a Silicon Valley whiz or the courage of an African eco-warrior become vital tools for survival. Each flashback grants new abilities but deepens his agonizing identity crisis: *Who am I?* Pulling the strings is the chillingly charismatic NeuroSync CEO, Dr. Kaelen Shaw. She will stop at nothing to protect "Project Echo." This technology, capable of stealing, editing, and weaponizing human memory, threatens to reshape thought itself if unleashed. Guidance from the cryptic "Watcher" is dubious, and NeuroSync's hunters close in relentlessly. Alex must piece together his own fractured, potentially damning past while unraveling the conspiracy closing in on him. Betrayal. Flight. Awakening. The final battle for identity, memory, and human freedom rages across both physical and mental battlefields. Can Alex master the seven echoes within his mind, find himself at the labyrinth's heart, and stop memory from becoming the ultimate weapon to rewrite the world?
wuxiron · 2.3K Views
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