The Shadow Weaver's Ascendance

Previously

…Gu Kai, his heart heavy with the loss and the dawning realization of his own strange abilities, looked at Elder Maeve. He had no answers, only questions that swirled like the smoke rising from his ruined home. He was no longer just Gu Kai, the orphan. He was something more, something feared and coveted, and he was utterly alone in a world that had suddenly become far more dangerous. The shadows that had saved him now seemed to beckon him, a path shrouded in mystery, a legacy he was only beginning to comprehend. The Ascendance had begun, not with a triumphant roar, but with the ashes of a burned village and the first, hesitant steps into the unknown.