Soulless

Eris Rayne knows why she is on this train. She has a Soul. With it, she will kill a monster. Connected with the brain, Souls are driven by fear, protecting their living vessels with their paranormal power. Eris's Soul surfaced, erupted from her body, when she was attacked in the street outside her home, by a hound cloaked in burnt-charcoal. As for Kai Hughes, the vacant stranger standing across the compartment, he, too, would be dead, if not for such an uncanny coincidence. Her country has not partaken in a war for a century, but the fact remains: those with Souls make vicious weapons.The train is headed beyond the towering Wall, into the capital city. The military centre has long disintegrated, but a handful of individuals linger in its halls. They will help her, that is, help her to kill the beast. She understands why Hughes is here. He is fierce, bent on revenge, and his Soul summoned flames at his feet. He need not fight, if he could simply burn. Her, on the other hand, she sat with a book in her lap, smelling of a musty building and paperwork. She struggles for control of her Soul, which lashes out uncontrollably. And yet she has chosen to offer up her body to strangers. Eris cannot shake the feeling that, somehow, she has been manipulated. When the reluctant companions arrive in Interieur, they discover the city in a state of emergency, and soldiers waiting on the platform; an eldritch creature has entered with them. SOULLESS enters multiple perspectives, using the lens of fantasy to explore ideas of mental health, fear, identity, and both the love and brutality necessary to survive.Content Warning: graphic depictions of violence, mentions of suicide/self harm, mild sexual content

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