I had been writing parts of myself into the characters without fully meaning to. It wasn’t something I planned from the outset, but over time it became impossible to ignore. I remember one moment clearly—writing a quiet scene where Ash sat alone, wrestling with fear and doubt—and realising, almost with a jolt, that I wasn’t just writing him. I was writing me.

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