The elders described them as angelic, with feathered wings and pearlescent hair.
No one mentioned anything about fangs.
The Ancestor tilted its head, studying me with an unsettling stillnessâlike a cat might study prey. I stumbled back, heart battering against my ribs, every instinct screaming to flee.
And yet⌠something older than fear held me in place, something deep and ancestral. It whispere...