Home in Darkness

This is a dark fantasy novel that constructs a strange world where light and darkness alternate. Here, the shadow is not an accessory dark spot, but the other half of the soul that carries memory, emotion and freedom. Shadowbinder Erion Grayfinger possesses a right hand of broken shadow that is considered "incomplete" by the church. One dark night, the shadow of the clockkeeper Agnes wrote the words "Go home at twelve o'clock" in blood on the wall, and was immediately swallowed by his right hand. This "Shadow Killing" tragedy pushed Elion into the abyss of escape. He and his blind apprentice Lisse broke into the "Reverse City" where shadows live, and gradually uncovered the truth that the church had buried for three thousand years: the first generation of Gray Finger cut off his own shadow and locked chaos at both ends of the "Time Balance" on behalf of all living beings. However, the church in later generations stole its power and reinforced the chain with fear, making the Gray Finger bloodline an unknown scapegoat for generations. What's even more cruel is that Elion discovered that the bloody words actually came from his future self. When the balance collapsed and a new successor was forced to be selected, he was forced to face the sin of tearing the shadow of his lover Claire to pieces seven years ago, and the seven years of escaping by cutting his own hands and self-hypnotizing himself. Under the siege of the church's "Eternal Lock Ceremony", Elion and Lyse jumped into the core of the time balance, replaced "cutting" with "acknowledgment", and jointly shouldered the responsibility to end the three-thousand-year scapegoat cycle - between light and shadow, the eternal dusk "Grey Realm" finally arrived. This is not an epic about the victory of light over darkness, but a redemption about shadows: the most complete soul is never pure white, but vast enough to accommodate all shades of gray; the deepest light begins with the courage to admit that darkness is a part of oneself.