The Orphans Who Saved Death

Name: The Orphans Who Saved Death
Author: auroralexica

by auroralexica

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I was unwanted by the parents who kept me, and saved by the strangers who didn't have to. Riya is seven when her family makes it clear, without ever needing to say it, that a daughter was never the thing they wanted. The night she finally stops trying to be wanted, four children barely older than her find her freezing in the woods and decide, without much discussion, that she's theirs now. Akise, Noire, Karma, and Warui are the last surviving heirs of the Holy Ones, the line that humanity's politics tried to erase along with their parents. They don't remember asking to be the last of anything. They just know they have each other, a half-broken sanctuary called Elysium, and now, a small girl who flinches when people are kind to her. This is the story of five children learning to be a family in the wreckage of what they lost, of burnt tea and worse cooking lessons, of a girl who is taught to throw a punch by a sister who'd rather hug her, of growing up together before the world remembers they exist. One day, the world outside Elysium's walls won't leave them alone. One day, they'll have to face the very thing their bloodline was born to protect: not life, but the unraveling of Death itself. But for now, there's tea to drink, biscuits to share, and a childhood five orphans are determined to give each other, whether the world allows it or not.