LOVE ME LIKE A CURSE
>The Zeryth, whose mouths split too wide and whose laughter bled into sobbing, the cruelest tricksters among the clans.
And the youngest,
>The Dayborn acolytes, fragile still, their blood unripe but their ambition fierce. They wore masks heavier than their bodies, desperate to belong among ancients who barely noticed them.
And above them all, whispers still carried of a line that no longer existed.
La Sanguinae Vera.
The True Blood. The First Line.
The one from whom all others had descended, and the one thought lost forever in the Ashen Sundering. Some still spoke their name with reverence. Others spat it like a curse. But all agreed: their extinction was a wound, and their absence left powe