Innocence Waning Part 2: An Altar Built from Ashes (Rebirth of Innocence) Kindle Edition

The morning after is always the truth.Chezdon Morrison wakes without a clear memory of what happened to him. He tells himself it was the wine. The curry. A bad night. He showers, finds evidence he cannot explain, and chooses not to think about it. There is school. There is Austin. There is a city that continues moving whether he is ready or not.This is not an escalation.This is a consequence, dressed up as a normal Thursday.Melbourne waits outside exactly as he left it. The same laneways. The same neon. The same people, each pulling in different directions, each carrying something he does not yet have the language for. Austin, who has said something that cannot be taken back. Jayden, whose silence has weight. A father announcing a future that was never discussed. A mother he keeps meaning to visit.And beneath it all, a version of himself that no longer sits where he expects it to.In Part 2, the blur of the beginning starts to resolve. Not into clarity, but into something harder to ignore. Not because things become worse, but because Chezdon begins, slowly and without intention, to see.The city keeps offering.He keeps accepting.But something has changed in the arithmetic of it.By the time the dust settles, one question will have answered itself, and it is not the one he was asking.Innocence Waning Part 2 continues the psychological fiction series set in Melbourne, where identity, desire, and consequence no longer sit apart, and what begins does not remain contained.This is where the reckoning begins. Read more