The orphan

In the filth-choked slums, a starving child makes a brutal choice to survive. When a shadowed witch finds him gnawing on flesh, she doesn’t recoil—she smiles. Cloaked in feathers and old magic, she brings him into her hidden manor, where blood, moonlight, and ancient spells begin to remake him. He was born unwanted—but under her gaze, he begins to change.