Sugar for the Serpent
In the city of Akria, where magic clings to every lantern-lit alley and the gods walk quietly among mortals, stories bloom like night roses — beautiful, guarded, and often thorned.
Lira is a sweet-seller with steady hands and a quiet reputation, known not for the enchantments in her confections, but for the way even the most bitter-hearted leave her stall with something warm in their chest. She asks no questions. She keeps her head down. She minds her sugar and survives.
Until someone begins to linger.
Someone not quite man. Not quite mortal. A presence wrapped in shadow and something older than time — who buys her sweets, watches her too closely, and says very little at all.
This is not a love story at first glance.
It is a story of patience. Of words unspoken. Of two lives slowly
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