Nailed to the Wall, Reborn for Vengeance
At the Bloodline Rite of the Nightborn, Count Louis Ashford knelt on one knee and asked the Council of Elders to approve our eternal blood pact.
In my last life, I was so overwhelmed that I slit my wrist, ready to seal the pact, when Louis's attendant, Owen Mercer, suddenly burst in.
He accused me of stealing the Sacred Blood Crystal offered to the First Ancestor, of plotting to betray the clan.
They found shards of the crystal in my room, along with a forbidden curse hidden inside my amulet that veiled my scent.
The whole clan denounced me as a traitor and called for a wooden stake through my heart.
At the last moment, Louis risked everything to beg the Council to spare me, then forced me i