by JA28
This is book 2. If you haven't read book 1, start there. https://www.amazon.com/author/ja28author Read ahead chapters on PatreonBook 1 available on Amazon (Kindle Unlimited) He survived the forest. He survived the Voice. But survival was never the end. The world beyond the forest is not what it seemed. Power moves in silence. Factions rise and fall in the shadows. And something within Asher is changing. The Voice still speaks.The shards still grow.But the line between control and surrender is beginning to blur. Every step forward pulls him further from who he was.Every choice carries a cost he can’t undo. Because this was never about escaping the Hollow. It was about what he would become after. Those Who Follow: The Beginning of After is a dark psychological fantasy about power, identity, and the cost of continuing when you no longer recognize yourself.
No streak history
One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 3 Oct 2026, 03:28 UTC
Entry forecast updated 3 Oct 2026, 03:28 UTC
Ranking model: rs-public-oracle-state-v1
Forecast model: rs-model-entry-v1
Chart history contains only this ranking model's runs; legacy points are not spliced in.
Coupled 14-day outlook
rs-joint-entry-copula-v1
Any eligible RS entry
10%
Two or more lists
3%
Likely threshold order: Psychological → Action → Adventure → Fantasy → Main.
Leading bundle: Psychological (7%).
Estimated from one fitted shared story path; category probabilities are not multiplied as if lists were independent.
Separate entry forecast; this probability does not enter the ranking score.
Overall Rising Stars Shadow RS rank
#1641 of 12,440 · 1591 below RS #50
By genre
beats 21% of similar stories
not enough data yet
beats 21% of similar stories
Both levers trail the field
Traffic and conversion are both below comparable stories. Cadence is the first lever — stories posting near-daily reached 25 followers 17% of the time; stories posting every few days almost never did. Get the flow going, then re-check conversion.
Benchmarks: 8,060 active Royal Road stories, percentiles within the 5–9 chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views lifetime.
