Ashes Under The Nighthawk
Ares is ten years old when the world teaches him its first rule: survival is never fair.
Born to an ordinary family living on the edge of the wilderness, Ares’s life is torn apart in a single night of blood and chaos. What follows is not a heroic journey, but a descent into the darkest corners of human cruelty—where monsters wear human faces, mercy is absent, and silence becomes the only shield a child can afford.
Dragged into captivity with his mother, Ares witnesses the slow destruction of everything that once gave him warmth or safety. In a place ruled by violence and obedience, he learns to watch instead of cry, to remember instead of hope. Every word spoken, every weakness shown, every moment of inattention becomes a lesson etched into him far deeper than scars.
As days turn into nightmares and trust dies one piece at a time, something changes within Ares. Not a sudden power, not salvation—but awareness. He begins to understand patterns. Authority. Fear. The way men justify cruelty, and the way silence enables it.
When the fragile balance of his captors finally breaks, Ares is faced with a choice no child should ever make—one that will decide whether he remains a victim of the world, or becomes something shaped by it.