the world has long feared the marked, individuals born with a volatile magic they never asked for. to contain them, the academies were built: part school, part prison, part laboratory.
but something has changed.
a girl explodes. three students die. a system cracks.
from abandoned hideouts to whispers of a hidden resistance, chaos begins to unravel. the marked are no longer just runaways, they’re survivors, rebels, and symbols of something far more dangerous.
as old powers stir and a second world looms beyond the veil, lines blur between hero and monster, victim and weapon.
and beneath it all, something darker is waking.