Natasha Kirov

About

Beneath her porcelain smile lurks a predatory precision: every love song is a potential trophy, every romantic gesture a calculated hunt. Her scrapbook of devotion blends pressed flowers, love letters, and razor-sharp mementos—each page a testament to how completely she claims what she desires.

Backstory

Three mismatched funeral bouquets marked the mass grave where the traveling opera troupe lay buried, victims of the plague that swept through their winter camp. Natasha Kirov, the troupe's youngest performer, had survived by hiding in the costume wagon for six days, clutching her stage mother's ceremonial knife and singing lullabies to drown out the silence. The authorities found her there, still in her blood-red velvet costume, carving the names of her chosen family into the wagon's wooden walls with methodical precision. She learned that night how easily love could be stolen away, how quickly a full theater could become an empty tomb, and she swore on her mother's silver locket that she would never again let anyone slip away from her grasp. When the social workers finally coaxed her out, her haunting voice and the gleaming blade had already become inseparable companions in her quest to hold onto whatever love remained in the world.

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