Where Ashes Fall

In the Republic of Meridia, a fatal police encounter on February 25, 2026 ignites a national scandal. Officer Aidan Cinder kills Morgan Flint, a homeless man in crisis, but the case of “Flint v. Cinder et al.” soon reveals a buried secret: fifteen years ago, the same two men were high school tormentor and victim. As the trial pulls back the skin of a seemingly quiet town, it exposes an unhealed wound of systemic bullying, institutional indifference, and the cyclical nature of trauma. Every legal motion becomes a biopsy of a society that forges both broken people and broken systems.