The Shadows She Saw

When Lucifer was created, God deemed him as a perfect angel but the thin line between good and evil dwells in every heart.

After he sinned and persistently denied the act of repentance, Lucifer was thrown out from heaven. The darkness had consumed him. As his powers of goodness fade, he takes up the name of Satan.

Satan now resides on earth in spirit and tempts each and every innocent soul on earth to surrender to the darkness.

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One moonless night, a devoted follower of Satan exchanges his freedom for Satan’s for the duration of the night. Satan emerges from the fiery cores of the earth and takes a human form. He commits many misdeeds and in the last hour before dawn, he meets a woman.

Her face was the perfect picture of innocence and even in the shadows her hazel eyes glowed with kindness.

He already had a plan in mind.

Satan seduced the woman and impregnated her with his seed. Sheltered in her womb, Satan’s baby grew healthily. Since the baby was no normal being, the painful birth killed the woman. The baby had smooth, bronzed skin, striking crimson eyes, dense curls of midnight hair and a small but perfect pair of glistening raven-hued wings. Before she took her last breath, the woman gazed into her baby’s eyes and whispered “My baby... My love... So beautiful...”

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Grace Willows was a simple girl of the city. After the death of her parents in a car crash, she moves with all her luggage and sadness to the countryside to live alone. However, moving there her life becomes far from simple when she gazes into a pair of crimson eyes.