Inferno's End: The Brother's Secret

The iron-gray warehouse resembled a massive beast’s skeleton, abandoned in the wasteland north of the city. The brother and sister, Roman Ashford and Ember Ashford, scraped by in the hollow of these remains, surviving on scavenged blankets and stolen food. Roman’s palms still reeked of the gunpowder from last night’s explosion as he sat pressed against a gaunt figure—his sister. He thought fleeing that fiery pit called "home" would finally make things right, but he didn’t realize that last night’s clash with the hero was only the beginning. A deeper crisis was gathering in the shadows, and the line between him and his sister called "protection" was, in this cramped coexistence, being...