Most of this is written by me, small edits are made by the ai to correct grammar, spelling and rhythm. Ashes Beneath the Oak It began on an eerie night, where shadows stretched unnaturally long and no moonlight pierced the dark. I awoke in dread, breath stolen from my lungs by a curse I’ve come to know too well—the legacy of my ancestors, who dared twist nature and now pass that burden to me. I donned my armored robes and reached for my staff—only to see it again. The mark. The all-seeing eye that peers into truths others dare not glimpse.What fate awaits? What must I sacrifice for sins not my own? I fled the tavern and spiraled into panic. Ivard, the blacksmith? No. Lilly, the herbalist? Distant, suspicious.But then—I saw her. The one who sought me out daily. Why had I not seen it before? The signs were there. The warmth. The food she never finished. Her. I ran—desperate to reach her estate before midnight.“Let me through!” I begged the guards. Time thinned, hope fled.The clock struck twelve. I collapsed, unheard… as the screams began behind those cold, unmoving gates. Weeks passed. Then months. My body no longer needed food. Even self-inflicted pain failed—I could not die.I hunted monsters hoping one might end me. None did.So I sat beneath our old oak tree, the one that once knew laughter.Now, the world moved in grayscale, submerged, hollowed.My only companion: silence. Until a sound pierced it. A voice—wrong, but familiar.And then I saw it. Her. Tall. Hair black as coal, cascading to her feet. Skin stretched and torn, ill-fitting like stolen flesh.Crimson eyes burned like coals. Four bone wings unfurled, night-black and gem-studded. Horns floated above her head, a crown of twisted divinity. This was not the woman I had loved.This was something that answered in her place. She cackled. “Isn’t this what you wished for? Did the price please you?”My scream tore out—raw, grieving. “I never asked for this! I never asked to lose them all, year after year. And now you wear her, mock her, mock me!” She leaned in, amused, confused… and then grinned. “You’re not Astor,” she said. “No… not quite.How long has it been, I wonder, for his wish to die unfulfilled?”Her grin stretched, cruel and gleaming.“Not that I ever intended it to.”

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