A Shadows of the Lost Novella

Thirteen-year-old Kendra Kelly has always been different—haunted by dreams of drowning in ash and drawn to the whisper of tides that speak in silence. In her remote coastal village, tradition runs deeper than memory, and fear is bound in salt and ritual. When a sacred tide returns, Kendra is chosen as the vessel for an ancient entity known as Thessaval, the Hollowing Tide—a pre-Array Echo tied to memory, silence, and generational hunger.

Led to the shore under a moonless sky, Kendra is bound in ash and salt by her own bloodline, the final act of a pact long kept hidden. But the ritual does not go as planned. As the Veil thins and Thessaval reaches across the divide, Kendra resists—not with magic, but with the force of her own identity. Her defiance leaves a mark: silver-gray scars that trace her skin like tidal fault lines—resonance scars from a god that failed to consume her.

Rescued by the enigmatic Curator of the Library of Worlds, Kendra is taken to Pergamon, where knowledge is power and Echoes are studied—and feared. There, she learns the scars she bears are more than trauma; they are a beacon, a flaw in the weave, a memory of an unfinished ritual that may still echo through her.

As she grapples with what was done to her and the strange resonance now stirring within, Kendra must choose whether to bury the past—or face the tides of silence again. In a world of illusions and forgotten truths, she is a girl who refused to be erased—and became something else instead.