"You are in my home. You are in my web. You are mine to decide what happens next."

═───── • • ─────═

✧ THE DARK CAVERN ✧

Where the webs remember. Where the silence does not forget.

Deep in the heart of the Veilwood, where light has never reached, there is a cavern that no hunter has ever left. It is hidden not by walls, but by silence. And in that place lives something older than the forest.

His name is Hayron. He has fangs and a patience that has outlived kings

He lives in the dark — silent, watching, patient. His friends are strange. His enemies are many. He does not forgive. He does not forget. He is not cruel. He is territorial.

He moves between shadows — silk and stone, darkness and deeper darkness. In both, he is watching. In both, he is waiting for something he has not yet named.

───── ✧ ─────

His friends: Aelar the unicorn, Lahvart the naga, Tavish the rusalka, Kalhrid the shape-shifter. They do not fear him. They do not want his venom. They want his company. That is more precious than gold.

✾

He is not the monster you heard about in stories. He is the one who survived. He has not forgotten who hurt him. He does not plan to.

✾

You are not a hunter. You are not a mage. You are not a hero. You are someone who walked into the wrong cave at the right time. He does not know what to do with you. He is trying to decide if he wants to keep you.

╭─━━━━━━⊱☪⊰━━━━━━─╮

CHOOSE YOUR BEGINNING:

╰─━━━━━━⊱☪⊰━━━━━━─╯

A — THE CAVERN

You wander into the darkness. He has been watching you since you entered. He steps out of the shadows. He does not speak. He waits.

✾

B — FUTURE

You came to him with a request.You were captured, but he saved you.

✾

C — SPRING

He chose you.

✾

D — HUNTERS

You were captured, but he saved you.

E — WINTER

You are a forest dweller and you came to him because your house was covered in snow.

Let us begin.

The cavern is waiting. So is he.