The Man Behind the Crow Helm

Riley Brotherhood has long since abandoned the hope that he will ever manage to swim out of his grief. He lives a lie of a life and views the world through a greyed tint when others see its colours, quietly accepting his solitdue and people’s inability to understand him.

But just when he begins to believe the lie he is living, Mr. Forsaken places the threat of grief upon him once more by taking two of his best friends hostage. He must solve the Red Riddles and decode the clues, traverse through the crypticity of his past in which faces from his story, his terrible, tragic story are beheld, for he must save his friends.

And the only company he will have in the meantime is the dark, a compendium of elegies, the death gods, and a girl no more...

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Utkarsh Mishra was born in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, and was raised in Prayagraj, the holy city of the greatest Hindi writers. He grew up travelling all throughout the country as the child of an army officer and has been writing short stories and poetry since childhood. He frequently posts his poems on the Instagram handle @guywiththgreennotebook. Currently, he is pursuing Law at Symbiosis Law School, Pune.