Last Kiss

ower. The great hall of Elias' family estate gleamed with gold and silk, its walls bearing the sigil of his noble bloodline. Toni

he evening felt grand, almost untouchable, yet beneath the surface, something stirred. A faint noise-distant, unna

hild, felt the wron

it hap

storm. Their beaks tore through fabric and flesh, their talons raking across faces. Panic erupted. Wine spilled,

ddenly as they came, the birds were gone. The room was silent except for the moans of the dying. Elias'

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g dark. He was the only one left b

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ut the nightma

othing but destruction in its wake. The people, filled with rage and fear, took up arms and hu

bear the shame of their transformation, banished before they turned on their o

Elias w

ealed in

y. They knew the signs-the slow change, the hunger in his eyes, the ni

was writt

nown world, there were whispers of a cure. A secret l

find the truth before the mon

the very thing th