The Claw Woman

In a time beyond calendars and clocks,when lands were not divided by maps,and forests spoke to the sky,deep in the black earth of the Gromy Land,a hand came to life.It was a hand like no other.It had six long,sinewy fingers,and on the back of its palm,where others wear skin,it bore a woman's face,with emerald green eyes,a thin nose,a mouth that could utter curses or chants,and sensitive ears that could hear even the most whispered thought.A strange being,a mixture of flesh and dark magic,created by the sorcery of Tenebros,the King of Dread,and his ice queen,Narkala.They wanted a weapon that would sneak through silences,tear without sound,bring death without a trace.They called it The Woman.Claw.She was raised in the darkness,among giant insects, two-headed snakes and spiders that spun venomous webs.She learned to walk on two toes,then on all fours.She learned to climb sharp rocks and swim in black lakes,in which even the stars dared not reflect themselves.She was perfect.But she had a flaw:her heart was not filled only with shadows.Unbeknownst to Tenebros,Queen Serelyndra,mistress of the Enchanted Forest,a being of light and balance,had slipped a secret sap into the core of her creation,the sap of justice.Thus,the Claw Woman would remember,in the most unexpected moments,something greater than fear:the truth.When the Claw Woman escaped from the Gromy Land and stepped into the Enchanted Forest,the sky trembled slightly.It was the beginning of a battle that would decide the fate