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For a long time, there was no hope. And then, from the darkness, rose a queen.
lived through the advent of the Golden Dragon. And in the midst of both these tragedies”—Damian
borne witness to—the last of the Wolf-Lords.”
in this ageless dim, legends were being told.
“For a thousand years, the Wolf-Lords did not leave the Moving Mountains,” Professor Bieleć went
legendary Moving Mountains. A Dragon, rendered in golden ink, wrapped golden claws around forest and mountain.
By tooth or by claw, they promised. The Brygada Smoka. The last of the Wolf-Lords, and the greatest dragon slayers in the world.”
Lukasz could feel the Apofys in his bones. He’d spent the morning reciting its curriculum vitae: the demonic taxidermy collection devoured, the pagan amulet exhibition plundered, and four Unnaturalists gutted.
He didn’t mind the tiny sear of pain. If you hunted dragons, you got used to burns. Lukasz interrupted: “Heard you’ve got an Apofys on the loose.”
Dress us like gentlemen, and we’ll hunt like wolves.
don’t want them waking up tomorrow and then we have to kill them again.”
But the dead didn’t need to worry about pain. That was the burden of the living.
humans never looked at something without dreaming up a way to kill it. Why had it let him live?
The Golden Dragon had antlers.
Barely remembered the hushed voices. Barely remembered how his mother had wept, lighting the sacred gromnica in every corner of the lodge while she prayed.
What he remembered were the domowiki. How they had howled, that last night. Wailing under the floorboards, screaming from the rafters. He remembered every door in the lodge slamming shut, the force shaking them like thunder, while he cowered in his bed.
First came the fangs. Then came the fur. Then came the fury.
what exactly is an Unnaturalist?” Dr. Rybak beamed. “A historian and curator of Unnatural objects and creatures,” he said. “As I mentioned, I am most interested in anthropomorphics.
The fury of the forest will rain down on
“Is this the shape of your fury?”
“I am so many things,” said Ren. “I am mostly terrible things, honestly. But of one thing I am sure: I am not just a girl.”
am human. I am animal. I am monster.
