Prologue & Chapter I In the heart of a vanishing Georgia, where snow falls like whispered prayers and the wind carries the weight of forgotten empires, lives Wilhelmina Evangelista, a girl raised on ink, folklore, and the quiet ache of a world unraveling. Tbilisi, 1883: the streets are hushed, but the storm is coming. When the fires of imperial conquest reach her doorstep, childhood is undone in a single night of terror. Left with only her mother's wedding dress and the flickering remnants of her father's wisdom, Mina flees into a world that no longer feels real. But in the cold shadow of loss, something older stirs, a thread of ancient power hidden in her blood, waiting to be named. This is not merely a tale of escape, but of awakening. Of a girl who was never meant to survive, only to remember.