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Astrea Ysoria knows how to mend broken bones. She doesn't know how to mend herself.
Some children inherit their parents' eyes. Others inherit their wars.
They were just children when summer afternoons stretched endless and the worst pain was skinned knees. When Xaden Riorson carved her name in river stones and the world was simple enough for friendship. Then came rebellion, execution orders, and the kind of loss that tears children apart and throws them on opposite sides of a war they never chose.
War orphans don't choose sides. But when you're thrown into the Riders Quadrant with the one person who knew you before everything broke, when every breath feels like betrayal and every stolen glance burns—well. Some hungers eat you alive.
This is the story of a healer who learns that some wounds never close. Of inherited trauma and impossible choices. Of the cosmic unfairness of being born to love what you're taught to destroy.