UNKNOWN POV
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The room is dimly lit, its walls carved from black stone and stained with ancient blood.
A long table stretches through the center, lined with cloaked figures. At the head sits the High Regent, eyes glowing with dark power.
Behind him stands Ravyn, the Queen's most loyal shadow - a vampire bred in silence, trained for blood.
He kneels.
> "The blood calls to her, my lord,"
"She's awakening."
The Regent does not smile.
> "Too slowly."
A growl stirs from the shadows. Another voice speaks - gravelly and inhuman:
> "If she awakens unguarded... she will be hunted. Torn apart. The humans won't know how to protect her."
> "They never did," another snarls. "That's why we lost her."
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Ravyn rises.
> "Then let me go. I will enter the mortal world myself."
The council stirs. Murmurs flicker like firelight.
> "You'll need more than fangs," says a deep voice from the end of the table.
That's when the door creaks open.
And three beings step inside:
A woman with glowing emerald eyes and vines twisting around her arms - a forest witch.
A tall, silver-haired figure cloaked in smoke - a shade assassin.
And a man with golden runes crawling across his skin - a fallen guardian, once of light, now something darker.
> "You summoned allies," Ravyn says, voice unreadable.
The Regent nods.
> "These three owe us a blood-debt.
They'll guide you through the human world.
Find her. Protect her. Bring her back.
Or if you cannot..."
"Let the prophecy die with her."
Ravyn's eyes flash red.
> "Zeria will not die.
Not while I still walk."
The witch laughs softly.
The assassin vanishes in a blink.
The guardian draws his hood low.
And the gate to the human world begins to open.
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Far away... in a town where the stars still shine...
Selena stirs in her sleep.
And the mark on her shoulder begins to glow.
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💬 Endnote (to explain the late post & connect to Chapter 16):
> 🖤 Hey, author note here!
This chapter was supposed to drop before Chapter 16 - my bad 😅
But I didn't want you to miss this important scene from the vampire world!
Ravyn, the council, the prophecy... it's all starting to unfold.
Let me know what you think! And thanks again for reading, voting, and staying with Vampire Lost ✨
- Mysterious_frnd 🌒✨