(First Draft)

Removed from society due to his chronic illness and raised in a cabin in the woods, the Camarian child-prince Nathanael is dying. It is not long after he learns this, that he hears that he is a monster from the lips of his religious family. Devastated he will do anything to be accepted by his god and family again, including not fight an unjust fate.

At the same time Royale’s second prince Drefan barely survives weeks of opium detox in his attempts to forget what has driven him into the northern deserts. Driven him to escape from the belief that he too is a monster, who deserves to have that word etched into his skin.

What does it truly mean to be a monster?