Emory returns to the city, and he hides. He was handsome once, before the forest creatures turned their wild claws to him, and now, he is just scarred. He is of a noble heritage, but he does not seek out his family. He's dead to them, and he doesn't need any confirmation. They would only shudder at the hideous thing he has become; this beast of bare flesh. He hides away in shadows and seclusion, until he's discovered in an abrupt anticlimax. She, moonlight and metal, peers down at him as he hunches in his nest. She does not recoil from the beast. She will love him, instead.
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