Chapter 1: The Village's Bloodstained Awakening Dusk hung low over a humble village, where joy, song, and dance once flowed from the longhouse atop the hill. Yet, in a quiet cottage on the edge, Camila slouched, weighed by an evening mundanity and the unspoken condemnation of her perceived monstrousness. Though her mother offered love, the village's judging eyes, full of scorn and fear, cast a long shadow on her ivory skin, where cosmic veins stretched like nebulae. A vision sparked within her, detailing a chamber-loaded rifle, a desperate foresight against brigands. A fleeting hope bloomed with Kai's earnest proposal, a declaration of love undeterred by her non-human nature, a weight he promised to share with their descendants. But this fragile joy was shattered when Charles Daxton, a cruel bounty hunter.......