Michael Cook-Hoar II

"A bridge is not the distance between two places. It is the decision to cross."   - Division Zero Archive, Vol. 12 Two years after burning the bridge that once let her walk between worlds, Achilla Lavey has built a life in Meridian City - forty laps before dawn, Division Zero briefings, the hum of a city she never meant to choose but somehow did. She has made peace with the scar tissue where her bridge used to be.
Until the impossible begins to hum. A faint, rhythmic pulse - every forty-seven seconds - coming from the sealed direction of her original world. Not a rupture. Not a tear. Not a threat.  A knock.  A signal shaped toward her dimensional signature, "essentially, shaped like your name." Someone back home has found her. To answer the knock, Achilla must confront everything she left behind - the war, the ghosts, the choices that saved a city and stranded her forever.
And when the one person capable of reaching across worlds finally does, Achilla must decide whether going home is a return. or a reckoning. The Long Way Home is the explosive, emotional finale of The Bridge and the Blade - a story about belonging, sacrifice, and the courage it takes to cross a bridge you once burned.