by bravelessbud
The Absolved cannot be killed, so they'll hunt him in the past. Han Syracusia couldn't get his life right. Third Class Citizen in an empire that's hell-bent on draining him. A power-afflicted little sister he's forced to give up. And a secret that would send him burning alive if exposed. Shit on shit on his luck, but he'd made peace with it. Until a stranger visited him on the night he was to be chained and tried to kill him for crimes he couldn't even imagine. And then another. And another. All accusing him of being a monster, willing to die to stop him from becoming whatever the hell they knew him to be. All somehow knowing a future he didn't. What threat could a mere struggling, mundane student with an ailing sister and a dead scholarship pose to an empire so mighty and so Graced? Han didn't know who they'd confused him with, and why everyone was so intent on seeing him in collars and chains or condemned and killed, but between the strangers who viciously wanted to bury him in the past, the empire that wanted to collar him, and his Heresy coming to light by hands he didn't know, he may have to confront this shitty life of his and become who they so desperately feared. But doing so could be the greatest mistake of his life and the greatest tragedy for the world.
