His Cruel Love: The Feather's Betrayal

, the boy with the miraculous feather that bro

gave them everything, believing

and unyielding, and suddenly,

nd the same faces I' d known since childhood, led by Mr. G

eful faces as Sheriff Davis drove me away;

, a wealthy man whose racehorse I once saved,

into a tool for his luxury resort, demandin

trength burning in me as he s

alized me, leaving me battered

with accusations that the blight had worsened because of

eir greed consuming them as they

"plug" holding back power, ripped it from my neck with rusty s

gony, but as the feather crumbled to d

through my veins, washing away my woun

eaving Havenwood to its self-made curse, kno

while Havenwood succumbed to the very blight they blamed

e, then condemned me, then brutalized me, finally realized the tru

and an ill-fated "purifier" brought even more devastation, l

, its few survivors scattered and insane, while

terms, leaving the ghosts of Havenwood behind, a te