CROWN OF VENOM AND VELVET

The Human Variable

Author: Vesper—Elsewhere

The Human Variable

[PRINCE CAIUS TORIN DRAVOS]

WHEN A variable as alien and chaotic as Kaelia Brynn Halloway—is abruptly introduced into an established equation, or a controlled environment, certain constants are bound to evolve.

This...unfortunately—

Is inevitable.

I watch it happen in real time, half hidden in the crossings of moonlight and shadow, on the open terrace at the lower end of the east wing, where two f