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Feathers and Fate

Author: Thomas Morau
last update publish date: 2026-01-26 06:15:56

Chapter 9: Feathers and Fate

Nico stared down at the embroidered crest on his blazer pocket as the bell rang—sharp, metallic, cutting through Professor Thorne’s closing remarks like a guillotine.

The bat wasn’t the usual leathery thing most vampire iconography used. Its wings were feathered. Black as midnight crow plumage, edged with an almost iridescent sheen that caught the lecture-hall lights and threw faint purple undertones. Not membrane stretched over bone. Not demonic. Almost… angelic. A
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