Under a blood-red moon, an ancient curse awakens once again. A mysterious fox spirit with terrifying powers has spent centuries searching for the woman whose soul is tied to his across three different lifetimes. Every time they find each other, tragedy tears them apart before their love can survive.
Now reborn into a world filled with dark magic, forbidden rituals, and deadly enemies, they must face the truth behind the curse that doomed them from the very beginning. As supernatural hunters close in and ancient forces threaten to consume the world, love becomes both their greatest strength and their deadliest weakness.
Torn between destiny and sacrifice, the immortal fox spirit must decide whether to protect the woman he loves… or destroy the world to keep her soul forever.
Filled with breathtaking fantasy visuals, forbidden romance, reincarnation, ancient magic, tragic love, supernatural battles, and emotional twists, this dark fantasy romance will captivate you until the final moment.
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Now reborn into a world filled with dark magic, forbidden rituals, and deadly enemies, they must face the truth behind the curse that doomed them from the very beginning. As supernatural hunters close in and ancient forces threaten to consume the world, love becomes both their greatest strength and their deadliest weakness.
Torn between destiny and sacrifice, the immortal fox spirit must decide whether to protect the woman he loves… or destroy the world to keep her soul forever.
Filled with breathtaking fantasy visuals, forbidden romance, reincarnation, ancient magic, tragic love, supernatural battles, and emotional twists, this dark fantasy romance will captivate you until the final moment.
#ThreeLifetimesOneSoul #DarkFantasy #FantasyRomance #FoxSpirit #ReincarnationLove #ForbiddenRomance #SupernaturalDrama #BloodMoon #ImmortalLove #FantasyMovie #MagicAndMystery #ENGSUB #FantasySeries #EpicRomance #DarkMagic #Soulmates #TragicLove #MythicalFantasy #ViralDrama #FullMovie
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00:00On the road to my wedding, my parents killed me.
00:02All because my father once made a blood pact with the Fae King.
00:06After 16 years, he must send a daughter into the deep woods for the consummation rite.
00:11My sister had somehow glimpsed the Fae King's true face,
00:15and she threatened to die rather than let anyone else marry him.
00:18But none of them knew.
00:20I was the one the Fae E. King had searched for across 500 years.
00:24I floated in mid-air, looking down at my own body sprawled across the ground.
00:28The moon silk gown spread open around me, like a blood-soaked flower.
00:32The black blood at the corner of my lips drew no one's attention.
00:36My parents were too busy pulling the gown from my limbs so they could dress my sister, Lyra Vos.
00:42They were quietly relieved.
00:44Lyra slid into the gown that had always been mine.
00:47She stood in the moonlight.
00:49Crimson silk, snow-pale skin, radiant as a goddess descended from the Elysian realm.
00:55Her cheeks flushed, trembling with excited anticipation.
00:58Father, mother, am I more beautiful than sister?
01:03Will the Fae King love me?
01:04My mother stepped forward and patted her hand with a tenderness I had never once received.
01:10Lyra has a plain face and a stutter.
01:12She cannot compare to you by half.
01:14My mother sighed with exaggerated pity.
01:17Though the Fae King is said to be a great lord,
01:20he cannot escape his bloodthirsty nature.
01:22We were always going to send your sister to satisfy the monster's pleasures.
01:27Whatever happened to her, whether she lived or died, it was never our concern.
01:32But you, my darling,
01:34why would you throw away all the fine young lords of Valor City to chase a Fae King?
01:40Lyra's pretty brow creased in displeasure.
01:43Mother, you simply don't understand.
01:45Lord Valen is devastatingly beautiful, gentle, and refined.
01:49No mortal man could ever compare to him.
01:54Deep in the mountain forest, a strange piping melody suddenly rang out.
01:59The fox approaches, all mortals, make way.
02:02Dozens of red foxes materialized from the trees, dense and silent, perching on branches and boulders.
02:10Even in death, I felt my phantom skin crawl.
02:12A fox wearing boots and a hat walked forward on two legs, stopping before my family.
02:18My parents stiffened into a row, blocking my body from view.
02:22The fox's voice sharpened to a shriek.
02:25Why is there the scent of mortal blood here?
02:28My parents exchanged a glance.
02:30Cold sweat dripped.
02:31My wraith drifted toward the fox envoy.
02:33I thought perhaps being a creature of the Faeae realm, it could see me.
02:38Perhaps it would avenge me.
02:40Its dark green eyes turned in my direction for a single instant.
02:44Then Lyra raised her hand and said, sweetly,
02:47I accidentally cut my hand just now.
02:50I apologize for dirtying the great lord's domain.
02:53She lifted her pale fingers.
02:55A few drops of blood welled up.
02:57The fox envoy studied her.
02:58Are you the bride the master is to wed?
03:01Miss Alera Vos?
03:03Indeed.
03:05By my father's commission, I am here to fulfill the blood pot made sixteen years ago.
03:10To wed the Fae King.
03:14If you dare deceive the Fae King, you will suffer the flay and shatterbone punishment.
03:20Your soul will be burned by verdant foxfire and know no release for all eternity.
03:27The threat was so severe my mother almost lunged forward to drag Lyra back.
03:32But Lyra was beyond reason.
03:34I am Alera Vos.
03:36I am the promised bride Lord Valen has waited sixteen years for.
03:40The fox envoy turned and led the procession forward.
03:43The hour has come.
03:45The bride enters the palicus.
03:47Lyra lowered her veil.
03:48Her red lips curved into a smile of triumphant desire.
03:52She had gotten everything she wanted.
03:54Countless foxes came running, rising on two legs to lift the bridal palanquin and carry
04:00it into the black depths of the mountain forest.
04:05When the fox procession vanished, my mother sank to the ground with a sob.
04:10Wild mountains!
04:11A fox's lair!
04:12An unknown creature for my poor Lyra!
04:14What a cruel Fae!
04:16I drifted before her.
04:17Her tears passed through my palm like ice water.
04:20The one who was supposed to enter that lair to become the Fae King's bride.
04:24That was me.
04:25But my mother had never shed a single tear for me.
04:28Twenty years ago, my father had failed the imperial examinations repeatedly.
04:33The family was destitute.
04:35On a mountain road home, he encountered a Fae King in silver hair and crimson robes.
04:39The Fae King offered to grant him one wish.
04:42My father knelt and begged.
04:44I wanted wealth.
04:46I wanted rank.
04:48I wanted to rise without effort.
04:50Whatever the price, I would pay it.
04:52When a daughter was born at her sixteenth year, she was to be brought into the mountains to be wed.
04:58My father agreed without hesitation.
05:00He signed the blood pact and pressed his bloody thumb to the paper.
05:04In the first year, my mother gave birth to me.
05:07There was no joy in it, only relief.
05:09A vessel to fulfill the contract.
05:11They handed me to a nursemaid named Mara, housed me in the outer cottage, and forgot me.
05:17Three years later, Lyra was born.
05:19She was everything her name promised.
05:21Farrah Starlight, enchanting beauty, able to speak at one year, compose verse at five, and by ten, dance among flowers
05:28while butterflies settled on her skirts.
05:31By comparison, I was plain beyond measure.
05:34I didn't even resemble my parents.
05:36And I stuttered.
05:37They came to loathe me.
05:38I was not permitted past the front gate of the main hall.
05:41I was not allowed to call them mother and father.
05:44On the night of my sixteenth birthday, I was to be wed.
05:47Before the procession departed, my mother brought me a farewell cup of wine.
05:52She had mixed poison into it.
05:56I watched my father lift Lyra in his arms, unblinking, and after they turned away, I climbed a tree, and
06:03pretended it was my father holding me.
06:05To earn even a shadow of that love, I made myself obedient in every way.
06:10When they said I must marry the Fae King, I did not protest.
06:14When they handed me the wine, I did not suspect.
06:16I drank every drop, grateful and trembling with surprise at being seen at all.
06:22Inside the bridal palanquin, the poison took hold.
06:25I clawed at the wooden walls until my fingers were shredded and raw.
06:30The pain was absolute.
06:31Viscera burning, black blood spilling from my lips.
06:35And then, at last, I went still.
06:37My parents rushed into the mountains, not to save me.
06:41They could not wait for my body to cool before stripping the gown.
06:44She had glimpsed violin once, and from that moment, she had thought of nothing else.
06:49She begged.
06:50She starved herself.
06:52My parents relented.
06:53They decided that on the wedding night, once I had died, Lyra would take my place.
06:58I was their blood, too.
07:00From first breath to last, I had not received a single moment of tenderness.
07:04We cannot leave her body here to be found.
07:07My mother glanced at the cliff edge.
07:09Do we carry her down?
07:11My father looked into the bottomless dark below.
07:14Throw her over.
07:15Leave nothing behind.
07:17They lifted me.
07:18They tossed my body over the edge.
07:21The sound of impact drifted up a moment later.
07:24They exhaled.
07:28Finally, that cursed thing is gone.
07:32My body shattered.
07:34The chain on my spirit broke free.
07:36My parents slipped into the darkness and descended the mountain.
07:43Lyra stood in my moon silk gown.
07:46Her veil lowered.
07:47A single corner of the fabric bore a faint smear of my blood.
07:51She could only see her own feet.
07:53But I had arrived first.
07:55I could see him clearly.
07:57The one who should have been mine.
07:59His robes were the red of blazing fire.
08:01His silver hair fell unbound to his ankles.
08:04A golden fox mask covered his face, leaving only his eyes exposed.
08:09Jade green, lucid, and still.
08:12He tensed, turned toward me.
08:14But Lyra caught his hand.
08:19Phelan.
08:20I am frightened.
08:22Her voice was honeyed, trembling.
08:24I remembered the voice she had used when I lay dying in the palanquin.
08:28Lyra, you are plain and dull and can't even finish a sentence.
08:33If your own parents don't love you, why would the Fae King?
08:37Only I deserve to be his wife.
08:39My unwedded husband.
08:41His name was Violent Nightwale.
08:43Violent withdrew his gaze.
08:45Don't be afraid.
08:47I am here.
08:49Through the veil, Lyra's eyes glimmered.
08:51Her cheeks flushed.
08:52They bowed before heaven and earth.
08:55Valen Nightwale and Lyra Vos.
08:58May this union endure.
08:59May this bond hold till silver turns to white.
09:03Golden script flared in the air.
09:05The blood pact my father had signed.
09:07But the light did not fade.
09:09The pact did not settle.
09:11A crack of thunder split the air and slammed into the candles on the altar.
09:15Even Lyra, so confident a moment before, went rigid with terror.
09:23Valen's true form rose without warning.
09:26Immense, snow-white, eight-tailed Fae form filling the chamber.
09:31His jade-green eyes bled to crimson.
09:33Talons closed around Lyra's shoulders.
09:36One twitch, and she would dissolve into nothing.
09:38The vast white fox lowered its head.
09:41You are not Alara.
09:44Where have you hidden her?
09:46Tell me.
09:48Lyra struggled beneath his talons.
09:51Tears streamed down her cheeks.
09:53Husband.
09:55I am Alara, I swear it.
09:58Valen reacted as if struck.
10:00His crimson beast.
10:02Eyes filled with surging, murderous intent.
10:05Who are you?
10:06Alara does not look like this.
10:08He lowered his face and inhaled, slow.
10:11You carry her blood scent.
10:13Where is she?
10:15Faced with a creature whose eyes made her look no bigger than a mote of dust, Lyra's composure
10:21finally shattered.
10:22She wept openly.
10:23I admit it.
10:25I am not Alara.
10:26But I love you sincerely.
10:28I don't care what you are.
10:30I'm not afraid of you.
10:31I only want to be your wife.
10:34I am more beautiful than her.
10:36I can compose poetry and paint.
10:38My family raised me to be the finest lady in all Velar City.
10:41The fairest lady of Velaria.
10:43I could bewitch all beings.
10:46Alara is nothing.
10:47She stutters.
10:48She cowers.
10:49She is useless.
10:50The blood pact only said a daughter must be sent.
10:53It named no specific daughter.
10:55Why should it not be me?
10:57I am the one worthy of a fey king who could bewitch all beings.
11:01He pinned her hand beneath his paw.
11:03Filthy mortal.
11:04You think you may touch me?
11:09Lyra's arm cracked beneath his paw.
11:12She screamed.
11:14To steal another's name brings the flay and shatter bone punishment.
11:19Your soul burns in verdant foxfire and never escapes.
11:23No.
11:23Please.
11:26I am beautiful.
11:28You wouldn't.
11:29I...
11:30I only love you.
11:32I only want...
11:33You coveted what was never yours.
11:36Does that not deserve death?
11:40Lyra's body rose into the air.
11:43She floated directly before my wraith.
11:45Her limbs were split open by invisible blades.
11:49The wraith that had been Lyra thrashed against an unseen boundary, trying to flee.
11:54Finding no escape, she turned to me.
11:56I was wrong.
11:57I should never have had you killed.
11:59Should never have stolen your intended.
12:01Beg the fey king on my behalf.
12:03Ask him to let me go.
12:05He could not see me, but he could see Lyra.
12:08Blood mist reddened his golden mask.
12:10Still you won't tell me.
12:12Where is Ellara?
12:16He raised his palm.
12:18Verdant foxfire gathered.
12:20Lyra broke.
12:21I'll tell you!
12:22She is dead!
12:23She died on the road here!
12:24She is at the base of the mountain!
12:26The verdant foxfire consumed Lyra's soul.
12:30Her shriek was deafening.
12:39I drifted before Valen.
12:41I opened my mouth to speak.
12:43He kept his head low, silver hair dripping blood.
12:48He was the fey king.
12:50At that moment, his soul was shattering.
12:52He was nearly mad.
12:54His red robes swept past me.
12:56He had forgotten he could ride the wind.
12:59I followed Valen down the mountain path,
13:02watching him stumble.
13:03He fell hard,
13:05did not stop to heal the wound,
13:07hauled himself up,
13:08and followed the blood scent.
13:20He found me at the base of the 10,000 foot cliff.
13:23My body was unrecognizable.
13:26He released a sound from somewhere beneath grief.
13:32He removed his crimson robe.
13:35His jade-green eyes had gone hollow,
13:37like two windows with nothing behind them.
13:40Tears fell into the blood pooled around me.
13:43Five hundred years I have harmed no one.
13:47Cosmic order,
13:48why can you still not let her be?
13:51So it was true.
13:52Even Feiyue could cry.
13:54I reached to brush the tears from his face.
13:56My spirit passed through him like smoke.
13:58Perhaps he felt the shift in the air.
14:00He lifted his head,
14:02searching.
14:02Alara, where are you?
14:04Alara!
14:05Alara!
14:06Alara!
14:07We might as well have been on opposite banks of the Eternal River.
14:10When searching wore him down.
14:12When hope drained out,
14:13he limped back to my body.
14:16He became a small white fox.
14:19He made a sound soft.
14:21He cried.
14:22And while he cried,
14:23he licked my body back into shape.
14:25Piece by piece,
14:27reassembling what had been destroyed.
14:28He raised his small, round head and looked at it.
14:31Alara,
14:32I will bring you back.
14:34Whatever it costs.
14:38A memory surfaced.
14:40In the deep winter of my 15th year,
14:43Lyra and I both fell through the ice on a frozen pond.
14:46Help!
14:48Help me!
14:50Everyone rushed to save her.
14:51I sank alone.
15:02In the dark, freezing water,
15:04someone pulled me up.
15:05Warm lips broke open my teeth.
15:07Air rushed in.
15:08On instinct,
15:09I clutched him and breathed him in.
15:11I spent the next several days in a fever.
15:13Mara was old and her care was imperfect.
15:15But at night,
15:16someone sat at my bedside.
15:18Don't be afraid, Alara.
15:19I'm here.
15:21Drink this.
15:22It has fey blood in it.
15:24You will recover quickly.
15:26In the fever haze,
15:27I heard Lyra come storming across the yard with her attendants.
15:30But she stopped in the doorway,
15:32stood rigid for a moment,
15:34and fled in silence.
15:36He shifted back to his fey form.
15:38He pressed his fey core against my cold, discolored lips.
15:42Don't.
15:43Don't.
15:44The pale, gleaming core still entered my body.
15:47I did not wake.
15:48Then a force seized my soul and dragged it.
15:52Backward.
15:53Deeper.
15:55Through time.
16:00When the vertigo passed,
16:02I sat up.
16:02I did not recognize this room.
16:05A girl burst in.
16:06Third sister!
16:07Is the wound from the Abyssal Venom manga
16:09still giving you trouble?
16:11Do you know what father and uncle caught this time?
16:13A dream wreath?
16:15A serpent shade?
16:17Neither.
16:18The creature locked in the Erther cage right now
16:21is a completely snow-white fox king.
16:27Just waiting to be presented to Lady Serafina
16:30in exchange for a royal reward.
16:32Drawing fragments of memory from the servants I passed.
16:34This was 500 years ago.
16:36The Aleth Empire, when monsters roamed freely.
16:39I was Alera Vos, third daughter of House Vos,
16:41one of the great monster hunter dynasties.
16:43Monster hunters captured and tamed fey creatures,
16:46delivered them to the Imperial court.
16:48House Vos was the most celebrated of all.
16:52I found a tall Aether cage.
16:55Inside it, a white fox dozed lazily,
16:58pure fur, three enormous tails already behind him.
17:01He sensed my approach.
17:04Pale green eyes opened.
17:06Valen?
17:12A nameless little monster hunter.
17:14I crossed to the Aether cage.
17:15And yet you know my name.
17:17I am Alera Vos.
17:20Five hundred years from now,
17:22you use your fey core to bring you back to life.
17:22His jade green eyes looked down at me with contempt.
17:27The fey core is my life's work.
17:30Why would I surrender it for one insignificant mortal?
17:34Little monster hunter.
17:36I have lived longer than you can imagine.
17:40I have eaten more people than you have ever seen.
17:43Try a story worth believing.
17:47Is there any way to send me back five hundred years?
17:51The other Valen is still out there, waiting for me.
17:54Come closer.
17:55The Aether cage was built from a special material.
17:58If a fey creature touched the bars, the iron seared and scorched.
18:02Fey blood ran down the wound.
18:03I did not move.
18:05My eyes stung.
18:12He pressed forward anyway, indifferent to the pain.
18:15His small pink nose extended through the iron bars, sniffing along the length of me.
18:21Peculious.
18:22You do carry the trace of my fey core.
18:25Little monster hunter, what exactly are you?
18:27I turned, reaching to touch his nose.
18:30He had already pulled back.
18:31Those jade eyes appraised me.
18:33Yellow-haired girl.
18:35Average height, average face.
18:37Not even equal to the lowest forest searing in my court.
18:41How could I possibly be bewitched by you?
18:44Why would I carve out my own core?
18:47I sputtered.
18:48My face burned.
18:50I pressed my hand to my chest.
18:52I am young.
18:52I will grow.
18:53I might become quite beautiful.
18:55Though really, who could rival Valen?
18:58A fey beauty was the crown of all creatures.
19:00He flicked a glance at where my hand pressed.
19:03I will wait for you to grow up.
19:04Mortal lives are only a hundred years.
19:07Barely a blink.
19:07It will pass.
19:08The hall doors opened.
19:10A young man in blue robes swept in, full of Green Peak Order power.
19:14Poised and extraordinary.
19:16His name surfaced in my borrowed memory.
19:19Kaol.
19:20It came out before I could stop it.
19:22Kaol.
19:23Lightward.
19:24The most...
19:27Most gifted monster.
19:29Hunter of his generation.
19:30He had captured Valen with his own hands.
19:33His amber eyes went straight to the unhealed wound on Valen's side.
19:37His voice dropped to frost.
19:39Did the creature try to hurt you?
19:41No!
19:42But he was already drawing the black void whip and landing it across Valen's exposed bone.
19:48Beast.
19:49You are what you are.
19:51Fae must be broken.
19:53Valen must be taught.
19:55Valen didn't flinch.
19:57He sat perfectly still with a faint sneer on his beautiful fox face.
20:01The lashes fell.
20:03Blood soaked his white fur.
20:05I couldn't stand it.
20:06I grabbed Kyle's arm.
20:07Brother stop!
20:08Please!
20:09Memory told me.
20:11Kyle and I had grown up together.
20:13We had entered the Green Peak Order side by side.
20:15He had always been slightly indulgent toward me.
20:19Kyle rolled up the void whip with unhurried calm.
20:21He reached over and touched the top of my head.
20:25Alara.
20:25Your abyssal venom wound isn't healed yet.
20:27The fae aura in here is heavy and foul.
20:30Go outside.
20:31This training isn't something you should watch.
20:33Valen's eyes snapped open.
20:35He spoke in the voice of a king.
20:37Remove your hand from her.
20:40Now.
20:43That single command enraged Kyle completely.
20:46He drew the Demon Slayer sword.
20:48I went pale.
20:50Kyle spoke a binding word.
20:51Invisible force pushed me toward the exit.
20:54The hall doors locked behind me.
20:56No matter what I did.
20:58They would not open.
20:59I waited until deep night.
21:01When the monster hunters had gone.
21:03I slipped into the hall.
21:05Valen lay in the ether cage.
21:07Barely breathing.
21:08Fye blood spattered the floor in every direction.
21:11I pressed my hand over my mouth.
21:13After a long moment I called his name very quietly.
21:17I threaded my small hand through the iron bars and stroked his large round fox head.
21:22The three tails that had always been proud and upright lay limp behind him.
21:26Even the fur under my palm felt cold and slick.
21:29It reminded me of a small white dog.
21:31Mara and I had kept in the outer cottage.
21:34Our little family.
21:35Depending on each other.
21:36Lyra had hated it for barking at her.
21:39She had ordered the servants drown it.
21:41I had searched for a full day.
21:43I found the small body floating on the surface of the river.
21:47When I pulled it from the water.
21:48It had felt like this.
21:50Cold and stiff.
21:51The warm fur matted into wet.
21:53Clinging strands around my fingers.
21:56The ether cage suppressed his power.
21:58He could not heal himself.
22:00Left like this.
22:01He would either break or die.
22:03I drew the dagger from my belt.
22:05I opened the vein at my wrist.
22:08Warm blood welled up.
22:09I reached inside the cage.
22:11Drink this.
22:13Stay alive.
22:15Fae healed when they fed.
22:16It was why they could not be truly exterminated.
22:19A creature this powerful, given one meal, could recover from near death.
22:24What do you think you are doing?
22:27Offering a fae king the blood of a monster hunter?
22:31I missed the gentle Vaylin from 500 years forward.
22:35This one was all fangs and pride.
22:38I grabbed the scruff of his neck and pulled him toward my wrist.
22:47Drink.
22:48Drink.
22:48Drink.
22:49If you dare die.
22:51If he died, I had no way back.
22:53But that was not what frightened me.
22:55He hesitated.
22:56Then the rough, dragging sensation of his tongue found my skin.
22:59It hurt a little.
23:00He did not hold back.
23:01His teeth drew fresh cuts, letting the blood flow faster.
23:04I fed him for a long time.
23:06Watching the wounds across his body close before withdrawing my hand.
23:10I'll come back tomorrow.
23:11When I stood, the room tilted.
23:13I braced against the cage to keep from falling.
23:16Vaylin watched me.
23:18Very still.
23:19His voice, when it came, was quiet.
23:22Why did you save me?
23:27Because you mattered to me.
23:29I was deliberately vague.
23:30He let it go.
23:32I walked out of the hall and nearly stepped into Kale.
23:35He caught me when I stumbled.
23:37Alara, what's wrong?
23:38I pressed my arm against my side.
23:40And told him the abyssal venom was flaring again.
23:43Come.
23:44I'll carry you.
23:45Kale was composed exceptional.
23:47Cold to almost everyone.
23:49Half the Green Peak Order were quietly in love with him.
23:52Yet here he was.
23:54Lowering his straight spine to offer his back.
23:57It's fine.
23:57Kale, I'm fine.
23:58I bolted.
23:59His voice drifted after me.
24:01Level and cool.
24:03The Fox King is a master of glamour.
24:05He is the apex of his kind.
24:08If he ever escapes, House Vos will not be enough to stop him.
24:14Alara, do not go near him again.
24:19The next morning, Sarah Vos, second daughter of the house, the girl who had been with me
24:24the day before, sat at my bedside, crunching a peach.
24:28Kale says your wound hasn't healed.
24:30He specially asked me to come keep you company.
24:33Tell me honestly, does Kale have feelings for you?
24:37He's the most outstanding of our generation.
24:41Half the noble families in Velour City are trying to align themselves with him.
24:45Vaylin had taken so much blood the night before, that even after sleeping, I was still dizzy.
24:51From outside came the crack of a whip.
24:53What's happening out there?
24:55Sarah glanced through the window.
24:57Taming session.
24:58They used void whips and binding tools on the caged creatures.
25:02The proud ones.
25:03The defiant ones.
25:04They died, rather than submit.
25:10Who are they working on today?
25:12My voice shook.
25:14Third sister.
25:15You're like a different person since the Abysmium Venom.
25:19It shouldn't affect your mind.
25:21Small creatures break quickly when they come to House Vos, obviously.
25:25But yesterday's catch is another matter.
25:27That fox king.
25:29Before she finished, I was already running.
25:31The Aether Seal formation had been set at the center of the training room.
25:35My father and two brothers were there with Kale, each holding a binding tool, striking from all directions.
25:42Blood, endless, fabled, cooling into the center of the formation.
25:46He could not hold his Fai-A form.
25:48He shifted into his human shape.
25:50He was covered entirely in red.
25:52No way to tell wound from wound.
25:54I stood in the doorway, trembling.
25:57Sarah's grip tightened on my hand.
25:59Her eyes were sharp as broken glass.
26:02You wouldn't plead for a Fai creature.
26:04This is our family's sacred duty.
26:05You never flinched before.
26:07She stopped, her face filled with horror.
26:10Allura, do you have feelings for this fox king?
26:13I corrected her quickly.
26:14I'm worried about Kale.
26:16If the creature breaks the formation-
26:19Right, right.
26:21You and Kale, everyone can see it.
26:23Once this fox king is sent to the palace as a gift for Lady Nephilimna, I'll ask father to let
26:28you two head.
26:29Even from that distance, through the formation, Valen could not have heard me, but he raised his head anyway.
26:36Through a curtain of silver hair, his extraordinary face turned toward me.
26:40His crimson eyes flickered.
26:42Rage, betrayal, and the specific pain of someone who has been deceived by the one they trusted.
26:48Then the broken, near-death creature exploded into motion.
26:52He tore through the ether cage, lunged at Kale, and a fourth tail burst from his body.
26:57That night, the servants of House Vos scrubbed up the blood in the Aether Seal formation.
27:02There was too much of it.
27:04They could not wash it cleanly.
27:06Some was my father's.
27:07Some was Kale's.
27:08Some was Valen's.
27:10He had grown a fourth tail in his fury.
27:13Terrifyingly powerful, but still not enough.
27:16He had wounded my father and Kale before being driven into the deepest chamber of the Spire of Shadows.
27:2618 levels, white bone and no light.
27:29All the great Faea creatures that could not be broken were locked in its depths, left to drain away across
27:35centuries until they died.
27:37I could not imagine what he was enduring in there.
27:39My blood had been of no use to him after all.
27:42With wounds that severe, how long until he recovered?
27:46The Spire of Shadows was House Vos' forbidden ground.
27:49No one but the head of the family could approach.
27:52When Kale came to see me that evening, I turned him away.
27:56That was the last time I ever saw him.
27:58The next day, House Vos was destroyed.
28:01Lady Serafina had been leaning over the edge of Moonbloom Pond, admiring the fish.
28:07The Lunar Koi Leviathan leaped from the water and swallowed her whole.
28:11Emperor Valerius was stricken with terror.
28:14He called in every monster hunter in the Empire.
28:17Together they slaughtered the Leviathan, and inside its stomach they found what remained of Lady Serafina, just bones.
28:23The Lunar Koi had been tamed by House Vos, delivered to the palace as a prize.
28:28No one had thought to check whether its submission was genuine.
28:32It had hated, it had waited, it had bided its time.
28:35The Emperor trembled at how close he had come.
28:38He ordered every fae creature in the palace, purged, then decreed in secret,
28:43eliminate House Vos entirely, let them serve as Lady Serafina's burial price.
28:48The slaughter came at midnight.
28:50House Vos was asleep when the blades found their throats.
28:54There were screams.
28:55Then running, then dying in the dark.
28:58The Emperor had given the order, no survivors.
29:01Tens of thousands of Imperial soldiers formed an unbroken ring around the estate.
29:06Those who escaped the house were cut down silently before they could make a sound.
29:10House Vos fought back, binding tools against arrows.
29:14The soldiers used children and elders as hostages, demanding the hunters lay down their weapons.
29:20Sarah and I shared a courtyard.
29:22She pulled me through a landscape of fire and bodies, searching for any path out.
29:27We were both young, only a handful of hunts behind us, no binding tools of our own.
29:35Soldiers caught Sarah right in front of me.
29:38They cut her throat.
29:39Blood spread like a curtain pulled open.
29:42Alara, run!
29:44Find Kale, make him!
29:46Those were her last words.
29:48I didn't make it out either.
29:49An arrow capping my back.
29:50I went cold and fell into the blood.
29:53The soldiers counted bodies.
29:54They thought I was dead.
29:56Four hundred and eighteen members of House Vos.
29:59Not one missing.
30:01Including elders, women, and children.
30:05They set the estate on fire.
30:07After they left, I dragged myself across the scorched earth with my fingers, inching through
30:12the blood and ash toward the spire of shadows.
30:15With my father dead, the seal had broken.
30:17I pried open the entrance and fell through, until I landed in a heap of white bones at
30:22the deepest level.
30:23A thin shaft of pale dawn came through the narrow opening above.
30:26Every bone in my body was shattered.
30:28Every inch of my body burned.
30:30I found him, still bound in chains.
30:33He sat on a stone bench, silver hair to his ankles.
30:37Posture exquisite.
30:38Utterly composed.
30:39Utterly cold.
30:40Like a king who had merely relocated his throne.
30:43His upswept fey eyes half-lidded when he saw me.
30:46Third daughter of House Vos.
30:48What a wretched sight you are.
30:54Did your beloved Kale not come to collect his bride?
30:58I was in agony.
30:59I smile.
31:00House Vos was destroyed.
31:03I need one of your tails.
31:05To keep me alive long enough to finish what I have to do.
31:09He leaned forward.
31:10His chained hand closed hard around my jaw.
31:13His fingers were ice, but no colder than the hollow in my chest.
31:17One hundred years of cultivation grows a single tail.
31:21Daughter of House Vos.
31:23Are you worth it?
31:24With my blood.
31:27I fed you.
31:28The blood from my coughing caught his palm.
31:31He pulled his hand back with faint revulsion.
31:33Yes.
31:34You fed me.
31:36You kept me alive to be captured properly.
31:39To be sent to the palace and used by Lady Serafana.
31:42And to perform at the pleasure of a filthy mortal every night.
31:48I didn't know.
31:50That was not part of Alera Vos's memory.
31:53No one had told me.
31:55Born into a hundred year dynasty of monster hunters and you didn't know?
32:01House Vos built its glory.
32:05Precisely on arrangements like that.
32:07Beloved by the Imperial Court precisely because of it.
32:11His hatred had calcified.
32:13There was nothing I could say.
32:14I reached for the iron locking his chains instead.
32:17And split it open with the last of my House Vos blood power.
32:22Go.
32:23Call it repacement.
32:25For the fey core you'll give me in five hundred years.
32:29My jaw shook.
32:30I lay down in the bones and waited to dissolve.
32:33He didn't hesitate.
32:35He walked past me and left.
32:37Maybe if I died, I would return to Alera Vos's body.
32:41My limbs had gone cold.
32:42Only a point of warmth remained at my sternum.
32:45Then Vylin came back.
32:47He flung a freshly severed tail at my feet.
32:50He was grinding his teeth.
32:52I have given you a tail.
32:54Your life is mine.
32:57Whatever I say, you obey.
33:01Betray me again.
33:03And no second chance.
33:05The white tail merged into my body.
33:08My shattered bones sealed.
33:10The Faki blood transformed me.
33:12It shifted my face.
33:14Softened it.
33:15Gave it a fey quality that mortals could not resist.
33:18It made me half mortal, half fey.
33:22Yes.
33:23Everything I am is yours.
33:25I will not betray you again.
33:27Vylin seemed to let go of something.
33:29He gathered me up, pressed his face into my neck like a small creature seeking warmth, and muttered low.
33:36You should have said so from the beginning.
33:38And I forbid you to marry Kale.
33:40There was no more Alera Vos in the world.
33:43In the Imperial Palace, there was a new Lady Alera.
33:47The debt the Imperial family owed was to be repaid with their dynasty.
33:52One melody on the lunar lyre made Emperor Valerius lift his head.
33:55My half-fey face held him transfixed.
33:58That night he summoned me to his chamber, impatient and wanting.
34:02His hand found the small of my back.
34:05I pressed my lips to his ear.
34:07Your Majesty.
34:09I will show you what it truly means to be blessed.
34:13He did not touch me.
34:14He collapsed on the Imperial bed, unconscious.
34:18Valen stepped from behind the bed curtains, Fang showing, visibly annoyed.
34:26Who gave him permission to touch you?
34:28I laughed.
34:32If I don't let the Emperor sink into decadence, how do I bring down his dynasty?
34:38I'm helping you.
34:40You could do it differently.
34:41He scowled, and a faint flush spread across his porcelain face, his eyes bright with feeling.
34:47If he had been a woman with the will to destroy kingdoms, one word from him would have been
34:52enough to make any ruler hand over his throne.
34:54I turned back to the window.
34:57Mortals have a hundred years.
34:59Fae have a thousand, or more, and the chance at ascension.
35:05I cannot be slow.
35:07I might not have enough time to topple his empire.
35:11He went still, the truth beneath my words.
35:13I was not even truly alive.
35:15I was a dead girl kept breathing by his Fae blood and sheer stubbornness.
35:20He reached for my hand and pulled me up to the palace roof, landing on the curved tiles
35:25in one leap.
35:26Why here, my hand stayed in his, to watch the moon.
35:30You've been a Faea creature for five hundred years and you still haven't seen enough of
35:34the moon?
35:34I stopped resisting.
35:37I lay down beside him and looked up.
35:39His long silver hair spread across the tiles.
35:42His face, impossibly beautiful, was better to look at than the moon.
35:46On the night of the full moon, a Fae creature's power is dampled.
35:51This is the cosmic order.
35:53It evens what is uneven.
35:55As he spoke, he became a small white fox, small enough to curl into my lap.
36:01He nestled into my arms, making soft sounds and was soon asleep.
36:05I had never been able to resist small, soft, warm creatures.
36:09Mara used to scold me, but I still smuggled the little dog into my blankets.
36:14How much less could I resist this snow white fox with his luminous fur and perfect little
36:19pink nose?
36:20I had been watching, since the day I found him in the ether cage.
36:23In his sleep, Vylen sneezed, he murmured.
36:27There will be a way.
36:28By morning, Emperor Valerius believed he had spent the night in paradise.
36:32He made me his imperial consort and buried me in gifts.
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