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Ashes of the Phoenix

Chapter 5 Ashes to Empire

Word Count: 503    |    Released on: 25/06/2025

designers, but with a new kind of movement. A fire had swept across the

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From local newspapers in Oyo to features on BBC Afr

the bush build an emp

me. She had built something

built

ucture - carved from white marble and fire-stone. A giant ph

andoned by society. Here, tailors sewed healing clothes, dancers learned to channel

fire-glow sandals. She taught the "forgotten ones" - orphans, street kid

o fabric using only her fingers. Another was a boy who had once stolen

alled Adur

." - Moth

under the name CodeFlame, and it now created software tha

iness partners. Their bond, forged in pain and

. No headlines. Just two souls walking si

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yes glistenin

along. They just

from chimneys, children laughed through the compoun

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d blew

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