A prince is born! A celebration? No. A death sentence. From Jecain Myxom’s first breath, his own people demanded his end, fearing the power of the Vantablack Myxote. But his parents saved him, fleeing the kingdom to give him a chance at life—or so the story goes. Raised in seclusion, he dreamed of becoming a hero, of ensuring no one else would suffer as he had. A noble path… if only fate cared for such things. The truth of his emergence, however, is far more complicated