The Dodder and the Noose | A Purifier Grows in the Ashen District
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Ten years after the bombs fell. Ironhaven.
Jo is the most valuable — and most defenseless — kind of person in the wasteland. A Tier-4 Water Purifier: someone who can turn irradiated sludge into something people can actually drink. Under the Legal Attachment Act, anyone without combat ability must be registered under a stronger person's name to survive. Her name is listed under her comatose boyfriend's file.
The moment he goes down, she has seventy-two hours before the Act catches up with her.
She goes to the Finding Wall.
The bounty-poster is a Tier-5 awakener from the Iron Fang Knights, callsign "Stillwind" — and he's been searching for a girl he only ever knew by her voice. An online relationship that ended when the world did.
She is that girl.
But she can't say so. The moment she does, someone will make sure she's buried as an impostor instead.
This is how she walks into the most dangerous crew in Ironhaven.
This is also how she discovers that the scariest cage she's ever been in doesn't have bars.
It has heating. Running water. Fresh vegetables every morning.
It's called "protection."
Jo is the most valuable — and most defenseless — kind of person in the wasteland. A Tier-4 Water Purifier: someone who can turn irradiated sludge into something people can actually drink. Under the Legal Attachment Act, anyone without combat ability must be registered under a stronger person's name to survive. Her name is listed under her comatose boyfriend's file.
The moment he goes down, she has seventy-two hours before the Act catches up with her.
She goes to the Finding Wall.
The bounty-poster is a Tier-5 awakener from the Iron Fang Knights, callsign "Stillwind" — and he's been searching for a girl he only ever knew by her voice. An online relationship that ended when the world did.
She is that girl.
But she can't say so. The moment she does, someone will make sure she's buried as an impostor instead.
This is how she walks into the most dangerous crew in Ironhaven.
This is also how she discovers that the scariest cage she's ever been in doesn't have bars.
It has heating. Running water. Fresh vegetables every morning.
It's called "protection."













































