by Pejot
Somewhere in a warlord-controlled part of Eastern Europe, 2013. Victor Jastrzebski, leader of a private military company called the Dragons, finds an unnamed eleven-year-old girl surrounded by the bodies of three grown men during a routine patrol. He takes her in and gives her a name, Lucy. There is only one problem. Nobody can explain how she killed them with her bare hands. What begins as another contract takes the Dragons into a hidden world of experimental technology, stolen prototypes, and people with their own reasons for keeping secrets. Did Victor find Lucy by accident, or was he meant to find her?
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Rank updated 13 Aug 2026, 04:15 UTC
Entry forecast updated 13 Aug 2026, 04:15 UTC
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Readers who find this story follow it at a high rate; there just aren't enough of them. In our cohort data, near-daily posting lifted the odds of reaching 25 followers from ~0% to 17% — more chapters, shoutout swaps and ads buy the eyeballs this conversion deserves.
At this conversion, the Psychological Rising Stars bar (≈2 new followers/day) costs about 179 views/day — the story currently gets ~16.
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