Prologue: The Piper’s Debt
A cursed melody echoes through generations as the betrayed Piper returns to Forest Mist, seeking vengeance—not for rats, but for broken promises.
Before Forest Mist had a name, it had a sin. The story is older than the trees that choke its borders, older than the salt-stained chapel that no longer rings its bell. It’s told in fragments—scratched into cellar walls, whispered by those who wake screaming, and buried in the pages of books that refuse to stay shelved. They say he came from the fog. A man draped in patchwork robes, eyes like hollow coins, and a flute car...
