The Seven Shadows of Babylon - Chapter Four: The Last Light

Daniel, now in his early thirties, was a natural leader—tall and strong, with the same piercing eyes as his father, Jake Harper, though his gaze carried a weight that belied his years. He had grown up in this world, a world that had long since turned its back on faith, on morality, on anything that stood in the way of pleasure and power. But for Daniel, there was something deeper, something that had been passed down to him from a generation that still remembered the truth.

He had found his calling among the remnants of the old world. Among the Bibles, the old books, the whispers of the Great Awakening that had swept through the world before the Rapture. Many of the people gathered before him had been born into this chaotic, hedonistic society, but somehow, through divine providence or sheer desperation, they had found the truth hidden in the ruins of a broken world.