Edge-Bound: The Ashwin Veil
Kael Fell Ashwin was bred to bend the Veil—not with pretty illusions, but with his family’s rarer gift: Edgecraft, the art of slicing the world thinner than breath.
He expected quiet Academy drills. Instead, his first Tier-One Gatewalk strands him and four unlikely comrades on a sky-bound chain where six raging anchors barely hold reality shut. Every step is a debt—of Essentia, of favors, of blood.
Thorn, the retainer who has broken bones for Kael since childhood, now shields him from mirror storms. Rei, a duel-hustler with lightning in her veins, gambles with every heartbeat. Elias stitches gravity together on scholarship coin, while Veyra—thirdborn of a minor House—paints dreams to hide her dread.
Finish the anchors, the Gate promises, and the rules themselves will change. What that means—boon or curse—no scholar agrees.
Armed with an heirloom glaive and a raw talent for carving the very air, Kael must lead his cohort home before the Veil decides to keep them forever.
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