A maiden of seclusion, escaped from her kingdom as it falls to devastation.
An apathetic amnesiac, washed adrift at the shores of a freezing river.
A travelling wanderer, excited to meet the unknowns for reasons unknown.
An ashen slave, whose freedom is but a mirage of her chained status.
Four unlikely children are gathered within the warmth of a campfire lit beneath the nightfall's glamour.
What stories do each of them share, and why did fate bring them together within the moonlight's glimmer?
In the depths of a forgotten forest, a monster bleeds where no eyes dare to look. Horned, fanged, and cloaked in shadow, he is a whispered curse, a tale mothers tell to frighten their children. But to one hidden maiden, he is something else: a wounded soul who should not be left to suffer alone.
He was once a prince, cursed by his own arrogance and forgotten by his people. She is no more than a healer in the shadows, unknown and unseen. But when mercy pulls her into his world and his monstrous claws close around her hand instead of her throat, the question becomes inevitable:
Who is truly saving whom-the maiden healing the monster, or the monster teaching the maiden the cost of love?
What begins as silence grows into secret exchanges: folded bandages returned neatly, crude markings scratched into stone, words left unspoken but understood. Curiosity becomes longing, and longing becomes danger when hunters draw near, eager to end the creature once and for all.
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