Timeless Shadows. Part I - Sandra Rose Berard

Something was born in the dark.

It tore its way out of a dying woman's body, fed on blood, and opened its eyes with a question no creature like it should ever ask:

Who am I?

Sinji is a Draeth-an ancient predator engineered to hunt, consume, and leave nothing behind. But from the moment of his awakening, he defies his own nature. He remembers. He hesitates. He chooses.

And that choice changes everything.

Sinji forces himself into a world that was never meant for him. He learns to wear humanity like armor, building a life among scavengers, exiles, and broken souls drifting through the void. Together, they become something dangerous-a crew that survives where others vanish.

But the galaxy is not empty.

It is watching.

Ancient horrors stir in forgotten systems. Slavers harvest entire lives like currency. Empires hide truths that should never be uncovered. And beneath Sinji's control, something far older than instinct begins to awaken-something that does not want to be restrained.

And when Sinji is captured, broken, starved, and left to rot in darkness... he does not die.

He evolves.

Now, unleashed into a universe already drowning in shadows, Sinji is no longer just a creature fighting to stay human-

He is the thing that hunts monsters.

And the deeper he descends into the abyss, the more one truth becomes impossible to ignore:

Some darkness cannot be contained.

Some shadows are meant to consume everything.

Timeless Shadows is a brutal, atmospheric descent into identity, survival, and cosmic horror-where the line between man and monster doesn't just blur... it disappears.