Ashes of Hollowing

“The Still Star dimmed. And the Hollowing followed.”



The ash that looked like snow came in summer. Silent. Beautiful. Lethal.



In seconds, billions exhaled and dropped where they stood — frozen, untouched, never to rise. Or so the world thought.



But death was only the beginning.



Perun Ren survives the first wave — a young man trapped in a crumbling village with his sister Lyra and their aging grandmother. As the ash continues to fall, the dead begin to stir. Not as monsters, but as something worse: hollow echoes of humanity, driven by an ancient command. Creatures formed not by hunger… but by something far more terrifying.



Lyra is the first to change.

Something buried within her is awakening.



She is one of the Resonant — those who awaken, not die. But with power comes the whispering Voice, and the growing temptation to surrender to it.



Others are changing, too.

Twisted survivors who welcomed the Hollowing — and embraced what they became.

One of them is hunting.



The world is being rewritten.

Can Perun save his sister from what's coming — or from what she's becoming?