Beast Woman

A rich young wastrel in the capital coveted my elder sister’s beauty and forcibly took her to his manor. I knelt at his gate and begged him to let my sister go. He grinned at me and said, “Sure. Spend one night sleeping on the mountain behind the manor, where the lions live, and I’ll give your sister back.” The next day, I appeared before him covered in wounds, but all he brought out was my sister’s corpse. He sneered, “A lowborn girl should be grateful that I took an interest in her. And she still went and played the chaste maiden, killing herself. Disgusting.” After burying my sister, I turned and headed for the mountain. What they didn’t know was that my blood