The war did not knock..
It tore the door open and stole everything inside.
Anselm, Ivaan, and Hedwig once believed the world was safe. They grew up clinging to promises that it would protect them. But war does not spare the innocent, it feeds on them.
Snow falls softly over streets stained with blood. Screams are swallowed by silence. Friends become witnesses to horrors they can never forget, forced to make choices that will haunt them long after the moment has passed. Love turns fragile. Hope becomes something painful. Survival demands a price no child should ever have to pay.
This is a story of friendship that bends but refuses to disappear. Of innocence lost too soon. Of memories that ache long after the guns fall silent. Not everyone is saved. And some goodbyes are never spoken.
Some wounds do not bleed.
They stay. Forever.
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S. Vaughn
S. Vaughn is a storyteller obsessed with darkness, memory, and the scars history leaves behind. She writes about broken worlds and the people who learn to breathe inside them. Inspired by war, silence, and the fragile nature of hope, her stories often blur the line between survival and surrender. Drawn to war, loss, and the shadows of the human mind, she explores the parts of people that are often left unspoken. When she is not writing, she loses herself in music and imagination, where her characters continue to live long after the last page.
