Cruel Bastards

“If you die, I won't weep for you.”

Mortimer squinted. The nerve of this man; so small, so easily breakable. This game they were playing, even as unspoken and subtle as it was, was reaching the limits of his patience. So he made a move.

“I'd rather you’d whimper.”

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A wandering lordly hunter on a quest to recover his lost property. 

A disgraced biologist on the run from his university. 

In a city slowly decaying in on itself, two outsiders meet and form a tentative alliance to navigate it's desiccated streets in search of the White Blood Society, a vampire mining coalition who may be the key to unlock the mystery of Varusk. In a swirl of dizzying secrets, escalating tensions, and disturbing truths, will their journey reveal a path of redemption for sins of the past or hold a mirror to the cruelty hidden within us all?

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