HEART STONE

note: Hey guys this is Golden Dragon. I don't even know if anyone reads this, but I am currently making the illustrations and editing this novel of mine, so I'm sorry for the inconsistent of the images, I am currently fixing that and adding more detail as I proceed and improve, thank you <3 Synopsis: Kael has worn a mask his entire life — a sad, sewn-shut face of grey linen that hides two things: horns that should not exist, and skin the color of a forge gone cold. He was found as an infant in a forest that should have killed him, raised in secret by a noble house that had already lost one son to the war that nearly erased his kind. He has never once seen his own reflection without wondering if it would be the last time anyone let him. Karajahn. Demons. Soul-eaters. An entire world once spent a generation bleeding itself white to end them, and the only proof any survived is the boy underneath the mask. Now Kael is a student at Valmere Academy, seat of the very crown that ordered his people's extinction — learning to fight without ever showing how strong he really is, to lose on purpose, to keep a friend at exactly the distance a secret requires. He has found people worth protecting. He has also, for the first time, started wanting things a boy like him was never supposed to want. In three days, he will stand before the King in a hall where every mask, hood, and covering is forbidden. A slow-burn dark fantasy about hiding, belonging, and what's underneath — for readers who like their secrets load-bearing and their happy endings uncertain.