fugazi-book

This story is about: A boy who takes other people''''s pain. Literally. And what that costs him, his team, and everyone who gets close enough to matter. Readers can expect: LitRPG progression, military academy, dark world-building, brutal fight scenes, slow-burn found family, alien overlords, class conflict, moral grey zones, and a protagonist who keeps making the wrong choice for the right reasons. Kai Redfern didn''''t volunteer for the Academy. He signed the contract because his brother is fourteen, and in two years they''''ll send him to the Mines if Kai doesn''''t have enough money to stop it. His ability is called Singularity of Pain. It sounds impressive. In practice, it means every hit his teammates take — he feels. All of them. At once. His group hates him for it. He can''''t blame them. The Skyran — the alien race that runs what''''s left of Earth — call him a Conduit. A nervous system for his unit. A useful tool. He''''s starting to think that''''s all anyone here is. Violence, death, and moral ambiguity throughout. This is not a power fantasy — it''''s a story about what you''''re willing to carry.