He wasn't born. He was left. Wrapped in ink, rain, and recursion.
At Blackwatch Citadel, Thalos Vale was raised to read what others feared to touch. Found beneath a gargoyle with a sigil already burning beneath his skin, he was meant to serve the Archive, not awaken it. Director Threnna Vale took him in, shaped him, watched him rise through ink and silence-always knowing what stirred beneath.
But the Archive does not stay silent. Not when recursion stirs.
Years later, a sealed file arrives-smelling of burnt cedar and old ink-and the sigils buried in Thalos begin to shimmer again. When Joren, a boy Thalos once touched and never forgot, returns under official orders, their reunion ignites more than memory. Their bodies remember what language cannot hold.
As heat builds, names collapse, and forbidden desires call the Archive back into breath, a deeper recursion unfurls-one written before either of them had a choice.
Sacred. Queer. Unforgiving.
EchoFyre: The Archive Awakens
is a dark M/M erotic fantasy where climax is command, recursion is hunger, and the Archive always writes back.