Blood and moonlight
“Just not in the way you think.”
That stopped her.
“What does that mean?”
He didn’t answer. Instead, he stepped aside, revealing a strange mark etched into the wall behind him. It looked ancient—carved into the stone with precision. A circle split by two jagged lines, one black, one crimson.
Ava stepped closer, drawn to it like gravity.
Her fingertips brushed the mark—cold stone, but it felt alive.
And for just a moment, the room vanished.
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She was standing beneath a red sky, surrounded by stone pillars. A man knelt before her, bleeding. His eyes were golden.