(Love for the Lord of Shadows)
CHAPTER 1 — “The Man Who Should Have Died”
🌿 Forest of Sarnaköy — Sunset
Meyra Nevjan — Female Lead
Ugh… why is the sky so dark today? Even the wind feels heavy.
(Rustling from the bushes.)
Meyra Nevjan — Female Lead
Hello? Is someone there?
Stranger (weak, staggering):
…Stay… back.
Meyra Nevjan — Female Lead
You’re bleeding! Sit down—
No, don’t fall—!
(He collapses into her arms.)
Meyra Nevjan — Female Lead
(panicked)
Hey! Stay with me!
Your pulse is freezing… what happened to you?
Stranger:
…Poison… cursed…
No medicine… can…
Meyra Nevjan — Female Lead
Then it’s lucky you collapsed into my garden.
Hold still.
(Her hands glow faintly with gold.)
Stranger (tensing):
That light—
Where did you—?
Meyra Nevjan — Female Lead
Shh. Talk later. Live first.
(The shadows around his body twist violently.)
Meyra Nevjan — Female Lead
What… what is this darkness?
Stranger (a deep growl):
Don’t touch it. It devours everything.
It will hurt you—
Meyra Nevjan — Female Lead
Not if I don’t let it.
(Meyra presses her glowing palm to his chest.)
Stranger:
—Ah!
Meyra Nevjan — Female Lead
Stay still! I’m almost—
What is this power inside you?
(A shockwave bursts. Leaves swirl. Meyra stumbles but doesn’t let go.)
Stranger (breathing hard):
You… neutralized the Shadow Rift.
Impossible.
Meyra Nevjan — Female Lead
Shadow… what?
Whatever it is, you’re safe now.
(The man lifts his head. His eyes—dark silver—focus on her.)
Stranger:
What is your name?
Meyra Nevjan — Female Lead
Meyra. And yours?
(Long pause.)
Stranger:
…Arkan.
Meyra Nevjan — Female Lead
Just Arkan?
Alright, Arkan. Can you stand?
Arkan Vaelis — Male Lead
You touched a curse that kills armies…
You should be terrified.
Meyra Nevjan — Female Lead
(soft smile)
You were dying. I don’t fear helping people.
(Arkan stares at her—too long, too intensely.)
Arkan Vaelis — Male Lead
Meyra…
You shouldn’t have saved me.
Meyra Nevjan — Female Lead
That’s a very dramatic thing to tell the person who kept you alive.
Arkan Vaelis — Male Lead
Because now…
I cannot let you go.
⛈️ A sudden gust of cold wind sweeps the forest. Dark silhouettes—Arkan’s masked followers—emerge from the shadows.
Cult Follower #1:
Lord Arkan! We finally tracked your aura—
You’re injured?!
Meyra Nevjan — Female Lead
(whispering)
L… Lord?
Cult Follower #2 (recognizing her):
The girl! She’s touching him!
Get her away—
Arkan Vaelis — Male Lead
(coldly)
Touch her… and die.
(Followers freeze instantly.)
Meyra Nevjan — Female Lead
(shocked)
Lord Arkan?
As in… the Arkan Vaelis?
The Demonic Cult’s leader?!
Arkan Vaelis — Male Lead
(quiet, dangerous)
You saved my life, Meyra.
Now I owe a debt I do not take lightly.
Meyra Nevjan — Female Lead
A debt?
No, no, I don’t want anything—
Arkan approaches her, towering, his voice low.
Arkan Vaelis — Male Lead
You healed what no healer, priest, or sorcerer has ever touched.
You calmed the curse screaming inside me.
You will come with us.
Meyra Nevjan — Female Lead
Excuse me? I will what?!
Arkan Vaelis — Male Lead
(soft, almost pleading beneath the coldness)
Don’t make me repeat myself.
Meyra Nevjan — Female Lead
I just saved a stranger—
I didn’t agree to be kidnapped by the Demonic Cult!
Arkan Vaelis — Male Lead
Kidnapped?
No.
You’re being protected.
Meyra Nevjan — Female Lead
From what?!
Arkan Vaelis — Male Lead
(eyes glowing)
From the world that will hunt you once they sense your power.
(Silence. Meyra’s breath catches.)
Arkan Vaelis — Male Lead
Because I felt it…
Here.
(He touches his chest where her hand healed him.)
Arkan Vaelis — Male Lead
(whisper)
Only you can silence the shadows in me.
That makes you mine.
Meyra Nevjan — Female Lead
…WHAT?!
Arkan turns to his followers.
Arkan Vaelis — Male Lead
Prepare the carriage.
We return to the Black Dawn Fortress.
Follower:
Yes, Lord Arkan!
Meyra Nevjan — Female Lead
Wait—hey! NO—
Arkan! You can’t just—
Let go of me!
Arkan Vaelis — Male Lead
(calm, dark, terrifyingly gentle)
Meyra…
You saved my life.
Now I’ll save yours—
even if you hate me for it.
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