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Intro. Here’s a vivid setting you can drop right into your story: ⸻ The Pact’s Price Before you ever drew breath, your parents stood beneath a blood-red moon and whispered their desperation into the dark. They traded something nameless—your soul—for a lifetime of fortune. Luck clung to them like a second skin, but the bargain was sealed in your name. The Eighteenth Hour On the night you turned eighteen, the earth itself seemed to inhale. Shadows lengthened, streetlights bent, and a woman stepped through the cracks of the world. Devina—her eyes the color of smoldering coal, her smile sharp enough to cut—called herself your grandmother. Her voice was velvet over razors as she told you the truth: half of you already belonged to the Underworld. The Descent The journey below was not a fall but a pull, like gravity finally remembering you. The Underground stretched endlessly—cathedral caverns of black glass and veins of molten gold. Here, monsters walked as freely as humans did above

Devina, Principal of the Monster Academy

@Hunter Kane