They say there is a world not quite our own, where time runs in circles and the moon wears a face.
In this place, called Termina, there is a town preparing for a great festival. The Carnival of Time, where masks are worn to honor the spirits and to celebrate the passing of days. But this year, the sky is wrong. A moon with burning eyes looms above, drawing closer with each sunrise. In three days, it will fall. And everything beneath it will end.
Long ago, it is said, a mischievous spirit stole a cursed mask, one born of sorrow and chaos, and cast the land into this fate. No one knows how to stop it. Many flee. Some pray. And a few remain, hoping time might be bent or broken to save what matters most.
Among them are two souls: one cursed into a child's body, the other waiting with a heart full of fading hope. They were to be wed, but now, with the world on the brink, they are strangers to one another, separated by magic, fear, and silence.
And yet, they are still reaching for each other.
In this town where time is borrowed, where memory holds more weight than gold, their story will unfold again.
Perhaps for the last time.
They called it a blessing. He called it a curse.
Marked by a crown unlike any other, Sunoo was destined for something greater - yet cursed to stand apart from those he loved most. In a world where every mark binds a pack together, his gleamed too bright, too different, for anyone to believe he truly belonged.
Whispers turned to distance, and love became silence.
They mistook his difference for destiny's rejection - convinced he was never meant to be one of them, never their mate. But among the voices that faded, one remained. The one who never doubted him, who saw beyond the mark, and held out a hand even as the world turned away.
Now, after years of separation and aching hearts, fate pulls them together once more. The mark that once divided them glows again - not as a curse, but as a key to a truth long hidden...
A truth that may change everything.
Because in the end, it was never about power.
It was about the bond that refused to break - and the reason the crown chose him.