A new day had dawned upon Veythral, following a day of incident, a day washed in blood and chaos.
As the city awakened, I was asleep on a creaking bed in my room at the cheap inn I'd rented.
Beside me, a small body was curled up under the quilt.
The fairy girl, after the traumas of last night, had fallen into a deep slumber.
I didn't know what she had been through in her past or what kind of life she had lived.
Nor did I fully understand why there was this strange, instinctual bond between us.
The theory that it was a result of Dr. Aris's cursed experiments was the only logical explanation I could conjure, but even that wasn't enough to fully account for the peculiar feeling inside me.
The only thing I knew for certain was that this little fairy girl felt precious to me, in a way even I couldn't comprehend.
I wanted to protect her, to take revenge on everyone who had ever harmed her.
