Bleed Pink

In Arcem, your blood determines everything.

Who you lead. Who you serve. Who you become.

Lior has always known what he is - a Donum, born to be chosen, trained to be wanted, kept alive to be useful. He was never meant to matter. Never meant to think. Never meant to walk into the most powerful House in the world and make its heir forget how to breathe.

Kael Von Cael doesn't feel. Feeling is weakness. His father made sure he understood that.

But Lior is not a weakness.

He is something far more dangerous.

A thousand years ago, the Noctum erased half of humanity. The world that survived was built on order, on blood, on the certainty that what was lost could never return.

Certainty is a lie people tell themselves when they're afraid of the truth.

Something is buried in the blood.

It was never meant to wake up.

The brightest light casts the darkest lie.