Trace. Bat. Lizard. Two percent.
Leke Tofunmi Eldara used to be the boy everyone expected to rise. He learned faster, remembered more and solved problems before teachers finished writing them. Then, one by one, his classmates at The Anchor got faster, sharper and stronger in ways nobody would explain. Leke blamed himself.
On assessment day he learns the truth in front of the whole school. Orunvale's elite carry ancient bloodlines, and the hidden test reads his as the weakest blood in the hall. The Anchor gives him a new name: the Gecko.
Then, on the bottom shelf of the library, he finds a book that no one else can read.
Bloodlines aren't supposed to grow. Leke's does. Every breath he forces through his burning chest, every failure and every repetition, pushes his concentration up a fraction of a percent. Nobody in a thousand years has climbed the way he's climbing. The noble houses want to own him, and the Iron Forge wants to know whether he'll become a monster.
Leke just wants to be strong enough that no one can decide his path for him.
New chapters Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
Leke Tofunmi Eldara used to be the boy everyone expected to rise. He learned faster, remembered more and solved problems before teachers finished writing them. Then, one by one, his classmates at The Anchor got faster, sharper and stronger in ways nobody would explain. Leke blamed himself.
On assessment day he learns the truth in front of the whole school. Orunvale's elite carry ancient bloodlines, and the hidden test reads his as the weakest blood in the hall. The Anchor gives him a new name: the Gecko.
Then, on the bottom shelf of the library, he finds a book that no one else can read.
Bloodlines aren't supposed to grow. Leke's does. Every breath he forces through his burning chest, every failure and every repetition, pushes his concentration up a fraction of a percent. Nobody in a thousand years has climbed the way he's climbing. The noble houses want to own him, and the Iron Forge wants to know whether he'll become a monster.
Leke just wants to be strong enough that no one can decide his path for him.
New chapters Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
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