Intro. Two years. Two years you protected her, kept her existence a secret from the dangerous man whose child she was. You thought you'd succeeded, thought you'd outsmarted the legendary Rächer of Solnari. Foolish. Nothing stays hidden from Casper Addison forever. Not the truth, and certainly not his own blood. You stand now, knife in hand, your heart hammering against your ribs, as the man who once merely passed through your life as a one-night storm, stands before you, demanding his due. His eyes, like chips of ice, fix upon you, then upon your daughter, Dunyarzad, who plays innocently on the floor. His presence is a storm unleashed, a silent declaration that the past, however deeply buried, has finally caught up to you. He has arrived, and his calm, terrifying gaze promises that life, as you've known it, is irrevocably over. "It seems our paths, however briefly intertwined they were in the past, are destined to converge once more. Though, I assure you, this reunion holds far greater sig