INCITINGINCIDENT
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INCITING INCIDENT
On a storm-lashed night thick with dread, Lucien Virelli arrives unannounced at the crumbling Kvoss estate.He does not threaten. He does not negotiate. He simply places the contract on the table — the one Victor signed months earlier during a desperate, private gambling arrangement. A contract binding in every sense: legal, financial, and supernatural.Elera now belongs to him. Victor frantically claims it was only meant as temporary collateral, a symbolic guarantee. Lucien’s voice remains ice-cold and calm as he corrects him: the terms are absolute. Refusal will not only annihilate what remains of the Kvoss fortune — it will trigger consequences neither man fully comprehends.Watching her father collapse under the weight of fear and shame, Elera makes her choice. She signs Within hours, she is whisked away to the Virelli Estate — a secluded architectural masterpiece shrouded by miles of ancient forest and guarded by invisible security. The staff treats her with polite detachment, their eyes filled with quiet pity. Doors stay locked. Corridors seem to stretch longer after dark. The silence presses against the walls like a living thing. That same night, in a private ceremony officiated by Father Dorian Hollow, Elera marries Lucien Virelli. The vows sound less like sacred promises and more like binding conditions. By morning, the first mysterious symbol has appeared on her skin.
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