Prologue

Come and take a walk with me my love, where the angels fear to visit. To a land far away, cursed by all. A beast dwells there, a beast so hideously evil, that no one dares to go near his castle. Except one man, and his courageous young daughter...

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My father left two nights ago to fight the beast and has not returned. I fear for the worst, and I know that I must go and face the beast myself, to avenge or rescue my father, or to die trying.

-Bella Artemisia Venatori. Daughter of Leo Fortunei Venatori.