Where Asphodel Grows: Covenant of Ash Saga: Short Story I

He had it all. His wings. A purpose. And a devotion he never questioned.

Then he was falling.

Over a thousand years before the events of The Liminal Phoenix, a demi-god crashes into a world that no longer knows him—his wings failing, his memories gone. The name he carried—the last true thing he owned—dissolves just before he hits the ground.

He doesn't know what he lost. Or what was taken from him in return.

What remains: an obsidian lake whose creatures judge him for a sin he can’t recall.

A ruined temple that recognizes him when nothing else does. A dream that arrives like a lover and suffocates him. And pale flowers that rise from the ground everywhere he walks, blooming, he’ll learn, so he never forgets the way home.

Because someone is still watching. Someone who calls him beloved in a voice that knows exactly how to make him answer. Someone who has stitched him into these veiled woods so thoroughly, he doesn’t understand that he isn’t free.

Where Asphodel Grows is the story of what the demi-god was before The Liminal Phoenix begins—and the devotion that cost him everything, including himself.

An exclusive prequel, told entirely in the demi-god’s point of view. Contains lore not found in the first book. This is a dark mythic fantasy with Gothic atmosphere and epic fantasy elements, in short story form.

Part of the Covenant of Ash Saga, Short Story I — Written by Judayne Vail