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Jake learned early that silence meant survival. Left behind in the foster care system after his brother was adopted, his childhood became an excercise of endurance, of violence, of illness, of being forgotten. The Marines offered him structure without questions, and when it took everything it could from him, it discarded him just as easily. By the time Pandora entered his life, Jake had already learned not to hope, only to last.
Pandora was never meant to be home. It was meant to be an escape: a borrowed body, borrowed freedom, borrowed air. But as Jake is drawn into the Omatikaya, and into the orbit of Tsu’tey, he begins to realize that freedom is not the absence of pain, but the courage to be seen despite it. And for the first time, Jake must decide whether survival is enough, or if he is willing to risk everything to belong.
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Previously called: From the Ashes