The Beginning of Broken Trust (edit) (log)

Haeon steps into a room where every smile is a test, and the shame in his own chest will not stay quiet. He once sold out a safe house, and people died because of it. Since then, he lives by rules he made for other people, using careful lies to keep a resistance path open under colonial rule. His gift makes that work worse and better at once. He feels what others feel as soon as he comes near them, so fear, rage, and grief press against him like weather. That is why he can hear when a lie begins to crack. It is also why he cannot pretend the dead were not his fault. When a chance comes to help a young noblewoman tied to the movement, he takes it without asking for pardon. The envelope in his...