The Fireflies

He wanted nothing more than to be left alone—to vanish with the dust and ruins of a world he no longer recognized. But fate doesn’t bargain.

In a marketplace where lives are bought like bread, he stumbles upon two strangers: one cloaked in silence, the other in defiance. What begins as a transaction becomes a quiet unraveling, as their presence disrupts the boundaries he’s drawn to protect what little is left of him.

Secrets bloom like weeds in the cracks of a broken town. As buried truths surface and new bonds ignite, he finds himself caught between who he was, who he became, and who he might still be—if he dares.

Not a story of heroes. A story of flickers—of brief, stubborn light in overwhelming dark.