Born

Some loves can't be denied. And some secrets refuse to stay buried

My destiny never promised a fairy tale.

It trapped me like a prison.

As the daughter of a cursed lineage, my path split into two: love or death.

At twenty, I, Pearl Ice, chose defiance.

I denied love after hearing how it sacrificed my grandfather to save my mother.

I refused to destroy my father.

I became a shell-body breaking, spirit starving.

Now, at thirty, the ancestors scream his name: RIVER.

The prince I denied.

The soulmate I tried to forget.

The healer who raised him once saved my mother, but a decade of silence, grief, and lies tore us apart.

Now, he returns-his love is like an apocalypse.

The fire I once feared may be the only thing that saves me.

I turned my back on everything.

I stole my son, Lake, and broke the First Law.

A law that demands no one ever waste a soul.

The ancestors punished me by recycling Lake's soul into my daughter, Pink Cloud.

But our love didn't begin today.

The ancestors etched it in blood on the cave walls of the beginning.

They carved it with hands that feared nothing-because they knew what was eternal.

This time... I won't delay.