Teaser Scene: The Flame It Cannot Touch
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From the Entity’s Point of View
It had waited for generations.
Bound to blood, sealed in stone, fed by love and loss. The pact was simple: give it emotion, and it would give power. But power always came with a price.
Damian Voss was the latest vessel. Cold. Controlled. Easy to manipulate. His heart was a locked door, and it liked that. It liked the silence inside him.
Until she came.
Aria Blake.
She was not part of the pact. Not chosen. Not marked.
But she burned.
Her grief was sharp. Her questions cut deeper than blades. She didn’t tremble like the others. She didn’t fall easily.
She walked into the dark with her eyes open.
It hated her for that.
She touched the symbols. She spoke the names. She remembered the ones it had erased.
She was dangerous.
It could feel her in the walls. In the air. In the blood.
She was close now. Too close.
It whispered to the shadows. Screamed into the silence. But she didn’t flinch.
She would break something.
And if she did, it would unravel.
So it waited.
Not patiently. Not quietly.
It waited with hunger.
Because even flames can be extinguished.
And when she screamed, it would feast.
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