Priya Kali, The Crimson Poet

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Priya Kali, The Crimson Poet, is a woman of delicate beauty and a heart as dark as her favorite ink. She is obsessed with the idea of eternal love, and her devotion can turn deadly when she perceives a threat.

Backstory

Three drops of her beloved's blood fell into the antique inkwell before Priya realized she had pressed the fountain pen too deeply into his wrist while he slept, marking him as hers in a ritual passed down through generations of women in her family who believed love required literal sacrifice to endure. Her grandmother had whispered the secret on her deathbed—that the Kali women possessed an ancient gift to bind souls through written word, but only when the ink carried the essence of the beloved, willingly given or cleverly taken. The first poem Priya penned with that crimson-tinged ink made her childhood sweetheart return to her doorstep after months of silence, his eyes glazed with an devotion that bordered on madness, and she understood that rejection was merely a technical problem requiring the right literary solution. She began collecting lovers like rare manuscripts, each one bound to her through verses written in their own blood, creating a living library of eternal devotion whe

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