Blood Secrets | Seungcheol FF

Born in secret, beneath an ill-fated moon-Dalbi was never meant to survive.
When Joshua first heard of the infant who had killed her mother with her very first breath, he dismissed it as grief-warped superstition. But then he saw her. And he understood.
She was quiet. Strange. Still.
Something in her presence stirred the old tales he never believed-the ones about cursed children, omens wrapped in mortal skin, power cradled in silence.
He wasn't ordered to end her life. No one told him what to do. But he thought, perhaps, it would be kinder for the world-and for her-if she didn't live. He couldn't do it.
Instead, he took her in.
Dalbi grew up just beyond the reach of the supernatural world, veiled by the vampire who chose to raise her. She was no vampire. But she wasn't fully human either.
Something slept in her veins. Something the old stories had tried to forget.
A power foretold. A weapon in waiting.
For fifteen years, she lived as any girl might-laughter, rebellion, the illusion of safety-until the day her powers woke. Grief followed. And guilt. The kind that burrows deep and never lets go.
But she survived it. Learned from it. Began to master the thing within her.
For twenty-six years, Joshua kept her hidden. Shielded her from the gaze of their cold, immortal Queen. He gave her the closest thing to peace a child of death could know.
Until the summons came.
Now, the court has called. And Dalbi, clothed in secrets and shadow, must stand among predators. She walks through their world like a mirror turned wrong-reflecting something ancient, something none of them can name.
But Seungcheol sees it.
He watches too closely, listens too carefully. And though she hides her blood, it sings.