The Third Blade

Crops yield within three percent of their projections. The sun sets at the exact minute the calendar predicts. In a world ruled by Kaul Drennen and his two powers, Collapse and Shift, surprise itself has become improbable.

Lucient Marvek, twenty-two, has spent eighteen months waiting for something that cannot happen. Then an old scholar shows him a cracked map and a forbidden name: Interval, the Third Blade, hidden beyond the Halvard Marshes, where the roads repeat and the sky does not move.

A dark fantasy about a young man walking toward an impossible thing, a blade that talks back, and the moment when reality itself hesitates.