VARIANT

"Slowly she opened her eyes, once dark, now silver-white and glowing like the moon. Her comely features were more feral. Her lip curled slightly as she allowed the beast to ready itself for the hunt. Her head turned toward the forest, her long unbound hair dancing across her back with the movement, muscles tensed. She thought about being in the forest, among the trees, among the elements, and then she was there, a shadow in the night." Ariana Blackwood only wished to be left in peace, to work her small farm, to find her life and her own measure of happiness in the land of Tambora. It was not long after her mother had died and left her alone on the farm that the druid and elf appeared on a neighboring farm. Then the lycans came. What the werewolves were looking for and what they found were beyond their comprehension. The woman, the great-granddaughter of the shaman of the People of the Red Mountain, was more than she appeared to be, more than the 'variant' that the druid was there to watch. A primal force is unleashed into the world, leaving destruction in its wake, culling the chaos from the land. But the darkness goes much deeper than one realm, and at the center of it all stands a woman who only wanted to be left alone.

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