by MHailey
Davic Woods serves as an aide to the Canadian Prime Minister — brilliant, socially awkward, and quietly valuable to people who never appear on organizational charts. When gunmen attack a café patio in Gatineau, Davic is the one left bleeding on the concrete. What follows is not a simple recovery. Intelligence services move in. The Prime Minister locks him under protective custody. Old names and sealed files begin to surface. Davic has spent years accepting the incomplete version of his own history. Now the gaps are starting to look deliberate. Someone tried to erase him once before. They may be trying again.
No streak history
One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 8 Oct 2026, 07:28 UTC
Entry forecast updated 8 Oct 2026, 07:28 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.
Not enough recent follower history to estimate a shadow rank yet.
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Hidden gem — exposure is the bottleneck
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.
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.
