Water Into Light: A Dark Mythic Fantasy Novella

At Carradon Ridge, betrayal shattered the sacred wards, and a demon horde destroyed the LightWardens. Captain Davi was left alive to remember.Poisoned by demon venom and hunted through a fractured world, he searches for whatever remains of his order. The betrayal cuts deepest because the man who helped destroy the LightWardens was Davi's trusted friend.Then he meets Asra.A hunted water-fae whose people are captured and drained for their magic, Asra carries losses of her own: a people nearly wiped from the world for what runs in their veins. When she heals the corruption spreading through Davi's blood, something passes between them that neither expected.Memories cross. Sensations echo across the bond. Their powers begin to change.And an old warning stirs - one Archoness Vexis believes holds the key to her ascension, speaking of power given freely, and power taken by force.Vexis is an ancient predator who has built her power by consuming the magic of others. She has harvested LightWarden blood. Drained fae to husks. Built a Chalice to force water and light together.Now she's found something better: Davi and Asra themselves.She intends to pour their converging powers into the Chalice and turn an ancient warning into her own ascension.Across a land of shattered sanctuaries and ruined kingdoms, demons hunt the roads. Corrupted warriors stalk the living. Monstrous creatures stitched from stolen flesh still carry the minds of the people they once were.But Davi and Asra may have found the one thing Vexis cannot create by force: Power that isn't taken, but shared.To stop her, Davi must survive demon hordes, corrupted warriors, and the friend who sold out his sacred order, and learn the one lesson his training never covered: He was never meant to carry everything alone.Water into Light is a dark mythic fantasy novella of fallen orders, brutal battles, ancient magic, betrayal, grief, and two competing visions of power.