Mavra Kedrovna is a corpsewitch and nobody knows. Cursed with the ability to control blood and reanimate corpses into upyrs, she's been confined to a convent alongside other young women for their protection amidst the Happenings; a series of disappearances and attacks plaguing Roz's villages. On the eve of mass hysteria, famed and feared upyr hunter, Nikandr Rokodin, betroths himself to Darya, a girl from Mavra's convent, in the name of strengthening himself before the magical genocide set to be waged against corpseswitches. Only when Mavra inserts herself into Nikandr's inner circle disguised as Darya's male mercenary does she realize the power she wields over both the living and dead can be used to protect Roz's women from a femicidal fate. But magic like hers often has a witching way of its own... copyright © 2022 elle chaika 2022 open novella entry under prompt 66 & 18.
7 parts