Chris9417
Six months after the sun-scorched horrors of Kijuju incident, BSAA operative Sheva Alomar seeks distance from the ghosts of her past by transferring to the European branch. She expects routine bio-hazard containment; instead, she finds a descent into a nightmare that logic cannot explain. After her unit is slaughtered in the mist-shrouded mountains of Eastern Europe, Sheva is taken captive-not as a prisoner of war, but as a "gift" for the reclusive Lord of House Beneviento.
Trapped within a decaying estate where dolls watch from every corner and hallucinations bleed into reality, Sheva encounters Donna Beneviento: a woman hidden behind a veil and a manic, porcelain proxy named Angie. As the isolation of the estate closes in, the lines between captor and prisoner begin to blur. Bound by shared scars and the heavy weight of survivor's guilt, Sheva and Donna find an unexpected, slow-burning spark in the darkness.
But with Mother Miranda's influence looming over the valley and the Megamycete hungering for control, their burgeoning bond is a dangerous act of rebellion. To find redemption and a path back to the light, the soldier and the dollmaker must face the horrors of the village-and the fractured pieces of their own hearts-together.