Ashes Between Stars
An interactive sci-fi romance · with Silas Veyr
The enemy commander you were sent to outrun just took a sniper's bullets for you, and he already knew your name.
Your choices shape how Silas responds.
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- Love interest
- Silas Veyr
- Genre
- Sci-fi romance
- Length
- ~1 hour
Tropes
About Ashes Between Stars
You were sent to outrun him. Silas Veyr — the enemy's deadliest weapon, the commander whose name makes your own soldiers go quiet.
Then a sniper opens fire, and he throws himself between you and the bullets.
Now you're trapped in one bunker, for one night, with a wounded man who should want you dead. He won't say why he did it.
And before you ever told him, he already knew your name.
A taste of the story
From Chapter 1
My name in his mouth stops me cold.
I have never told him my name.
He moves.
The metal hand closes around my wrist, the world tilts, and my back meets a concrete pillar — not hard enough to hurt, I register distantly, because even at that speed he has controlled the impact. The pistol is somehow in his hand, and his body is between mine and the open station.
“Get off me—”
A gunshot cracks. Stone explodes beside his head.
He folds over me.
For one heartbeat I think he’s using me as a shield. Then I understand the angle of him, and feel the stone fragments hitting his armour instead of my skin. He’s shielding me. Three more rounds tear through the place where his head just was.
I can feel nothing except the press of his chest, the hard edge of armour, and cold metal fingers around my forearm. My heart is going hard enough to feel it through both of us.
His breath touches my ear.
SILAS
“Your sniper has terrible aim.”
“He’s not mine.”
SILAS
“I know.”
Another shot. He drags me behind the ticket barrier, and I go, partly because the alternative is being shot and partly because his strength makes resisting mostly theoretical.
“How do you know my name?”
He checks the pistol’s charge and hands it back to me, grip first.
That unsettles me more than if he’d kept it.
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Questions
Is Ashes Between Stars free to read?
Yes. Chapter 1 of Ashes Between Stars is free, and Chapters 1–3 are free for 2 stories a month with a free account. To finish it, unlock the whole story for $2.99 — one payment, yours to keep, and if you want every story, you can read them all FREE for 7 days, then $9.99 a month.
Who is the love interest in Ashes Between Stars?
Silas Veyr. Ashes Between Stars is an interactive sci-fi romance where your choices shape what happens with Silas, and the story remembers every one.
What kind of story is Ashes Between Stars?
An interactive sci-fi romance built on he falls first, protective hero and forced proximity. You make the choices, and later chapters remember them.
How long is Ashes Between Stars?
About 1 hour of reading, in chapters you can read at your own pace.