One was born to fight. The other to protect. But even siblings raised in darkness don’t always choose the same kind of light.
They were turned together.
But they didn’t survive the same.
Meet Ezra and Faine are brother and sister, by blood, by turning, and by the violent grace that’s held them together through centuries of loss. They were human once. Faithful, even. But immortality doesn’t just change your body, it corrupts your soul.
It corrupted Ezra’s.
He’s the charming one. The one who takes what he wants. The one who learned early that the only way to stay alive was to stop caring who got hurt.
Faine?
Faine still cares.
Meet Ezra and Faine below and get to know them as individuals.
Meet FAINE: The Moral Compass with a Blade
Faine isn’t just Ezra’s sister, she’s his tether to a better path he’s not sure he even wants. She still fights, but she’s no softhearted saint. She knows how to kill. She’s done it. But every time she does, she counts the cost. That’s the difference between her and Ezra.
And the reason he both listens to her, and avoids her.
Faine keeps to codes. Ezra keeps to instincts and sins. But when the world begins to fray, it’s their bond that might hold the line… or break it entirely.
Meet EZRA: The Monster Who’s Not Fully Gone
Ezra has the swagger, the smile, the hunger. But beneath all that bravado is a man who remembers what it felt like to kneel in a church pew. Who hears his mother’s hymns in his head even as he sinks his teeth into strangers. He’s not reformed, not really.
But he loves Faine.
And that might be the only pure thing left in him.
Stay tuned for more from Behind the Veil, where the monsters you fear might be the ones worth saving, and the siblings who survive hell don’t always come out clean.
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