Ashborn Chapter 24

Dareya survives months of imprisonment, torture, and propaganda-driven interrogation under an authoritarian regime, refusing to betray her family or submit to a manufactured narrative.

Dareya sits shackled during an interrogation, watched closely by guards in a sealed detention facility.

“On your feet!” The order rang out as a pair of guards approached my cell. I winced with pain from the bruises of my last beating which were just starting to heal, with more bruising underneath in various stages of healing. By the time they got the doo…