Ashborn Chapter 23

Endurance is not passive. It is the slow refusal to disappear.

The Order thinks pain will make Dareya yield. She has already decided that it won’t.

Time had lost all meaning. I could no longer tell the difference between day and night. The fluorescent lights overhead never flickered, never dimmed. Minutes bled into hours, hours into something larger I couldn’t name.

I laid my head against the cold stone floor, tracin…