Chapter 1 — The Boy the World Forgot

The village of Ashvara didn’t hate Indra.That would’ve required effort.They simply… forgot him. Mid-sentence sometimes. A shopkeeper would look straight at him, mouth open, ready to say get out — and then his eyes would glaze, slide sideways, like Indra was a smudge on glass and not a seventeen-year-old boy standing three feet away. It happened so often that Indra …