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It then shifts to Avalon, following Flynn and Davin as they navigate sharply contrasting worlds and unsettling interpersonal dynamics. The text includes explicit content warnings for gruesome deaths, injury to animals, ableist attitudes, prolonged solitary confinement trauma, and fraught parental relationships.","[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nCopyright © 2026–present by Sam Burns.  \nAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the author, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law.  \nNo AI was used in creating any part of this book.  \nContent Warning: multiple gruesome deaths described in detail, injured (but NEVER killed) animals, ableist attitudes from non-MCs, violence, depictions of solitary confinement over long periods and the trauma that results from that psychological torture, fraught parental relationships.  \nCover art © 2025 by Natasha Snow at [https://natashasnow.com/](https://natashasnow.com/)[ ](https://natashasnow.com/)Editing by the elusive SB, and Julie at [https://bookwormyogi.com/](https://bookwormyogi.com/)  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nCONTENTS  \nChapter 1  \nChapter 2  \nChapter 3  \nChapter 4  \nChapter 5  \nChapter 6  \nChapter 7  \nChapter 8  \nChapter 9  \nChapter 10  \nChapter 11  \nChapter 12  \nChapter 13  \nChapter 14  \nChapter 15  \nChapter 16  \nChapter 17  \nChapter 18  \nChapter 19  \nChapter 20  \nChapter 21  \nChapter 22  \nChapter 23  \nChapter 24  \nChapter 25  \nChapter 26  \nChapter 27  \nChapter 28  \nChapter 29  \nChapter 30  \nChapter 31  \nChapter 32  \nChapter 33  \nChapter 34  \nChapter 35  \nChapter 36  \nThe Fantastic Fluke  \nAcknowledgments  \nAlso by Sam Burns & W.M. Fawkes  \nAlso by Sam Burns  \nAbout Sam Burns  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nFor Mr. Burns. Together, we won.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nCHAPTER 1  \nSOMEWHERE IN THE NORTH SEA  \nI  \n?  \nt was a good day, because I hadn’t had the urge to curl up and die even once.  \nThat had become a standard over the years I’d been in the cell,  \nespecially during the weeks it took to recover from being drained. Being left with so little energy that eating was a near-impossible chore rather than the one good thing that happened to me in my prison, well . . .  \nSome days I didn’t bother.  \nStill, my body had stubbornly refused to just die, even if my willpower had given way years earlier. Was it years? Decades? Centuries?  \nI had no way of knowing how long it had been, truth told. I wasn’t fed on any kind of real schedule, and even if I had been, there wasn’t a convenient notebook to write things down. 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