Archivist wasp

Hunting ghosts is the work Wasp was raised to do, and each year her place as Archivist is up for contest. When her position is threatened and she has nowhere else to turn, she makes a deal with the spirit of a supersoldier. In return for joining his journey into the underworld, where he hopes to recover the lost ghost of his partner, she will gain access to knowledge of the world that existed before the collapse, more than any Archivist has ever held.

Archivists have been told for four centuries that they are born marked to carry out a goddess's sacred duty and that they were chosen for it. Wasp is not convinced. She worries that she is not the chosen one, that she may not survive the descent, and that the harsh life she left behind could turn out to be easier than whatever waits below.