by Ithielwen
She fits the shape they gave her. Cervi. Guardian. Bound to die if the girl she protects dies first. The courts called it service. Minnow called it living. A devil lives in her neck now. It talks. It has already made a friend of theirs pick up a blade. The house has decided two days is long enough. They will pull it out. They will give her back to silence and call that kindness. Gideon keeps finding her at windows. Close enough to reach. Not close enough to keep. She has been useful her entire life. She is running out of reasons to stay that way.
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, 00:08 UTC
Entry forecast updated 3 Oct 2026, 00:08 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
5%
Likely threshold order: Tragedy → Drama → Romance → Fantasy → Main.
Leading bundle: Tragedy (4%).
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
#8215 of 12,395 · 8165 below RS #50
By genre
beats 56% of similar stories
not enough data yet
beats 18% of similar stories
Mid-pack, room on both levers
Traffic and conversion both sit mid-field for a story this size. Growth here compounds from consistency: steady cadence feeds traffic, and a sharper hook lifts what each view is worth.
Benchmarks: 8,060 active Royal Road stories, percentiles within the 20–49 chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views over the recent window.
