I spent years looking for my brother, and he finally made himself known by leaving me a dead animal with a hidden note in its gut. The note led me to him in the deepest woods. To a version of Aik I had always known but never wanted to accept. Aik never wanted me as a brother. He wanted an obsession. A passion. And in the filth of the forest floor, he remade me by breaking me in the most twisted ways until my devotion was a sickness, and my body was his alone. I came looking for the boy I lost. Instead, I was claimed by the monster he became. I’ll never be free of him.