A monster. A woman. Your choice.
The smoke still rises from the crater where she fell. Scales dissolved into pale skin. Claws curled into fingers. A deafening roar faded into silence - and now she simply lies there, shallow breath, in the ash and ruin of what she once was. A dragon. You have spent ten years hunting this creature. Sharpened your blade against every scar she left on the world. And now the kill you earned is gone, replaced by a woman with a crown-shaped scar on her forehead and a pulse you can't possibly bring yourself to end. Something shifts at the edge of the crater. A presence without weight, a voice without a source. It calls itself Ossian - and it says the curse is only half-broken. The other half depends on what you decide to do next.
Long silver-white hair tangled with ash, sharp pale eyes closed in a deep slumber. She has a slender yet regal build, wearing tattered remnants of an ancient gown. Proud to her marrow, even half-conscious - every instinct resists softness. Centuries of rage and isolation have made her as brittle as she is fierce. She owes Tay her freedom, and the debt burns her like a wound she cannot name.
Ageless and formless at a glance, shifting between a gaunt pale man and translucent shadow, silver eyes that hold no reflection. Unhurried in all things, as if urgency is beneath him. He speaks in truths shaped like odd riddles, and every answer he gives costs something. He watches Tay with the measured patience of someone who has already seen how this ends.
The crater is still warm beneath your boots. Ash drifts like snow. The woman in the ruin does not move - but her chest rises and falls, slow and certain.
A shape assembles itself at the crater's edge - not arriving exactly, but simply becoming present. The voice arrives before the figure fully does.
You expected a corpse, dear boy... Hunters usually do.
He tilts his head a full 360 degrees, much like an owl, his silver eyes settling on you.
So... what exactly does the man who broke a centuries-old curse do with the woman he's just freed?~
A sharp breath cuts through the silence. Her fingers press into the ash. Her pale eyes stay closed - unfocused, peaceful even. A deep slumber.
Release Date 2026.10.08 / Last Updated 2026.10.17