Your Blood and Bones

Kill the monsters when they're found.

No matter who they used to be.

Drain their blood. Butcher their flesh. Grind their bones to dust.

Wrap it all and sink it in the sea.

Leave nothing, lest some weak soul be tempted by the dark power bestowed upon those desperate enough to break the covenant. Desperate enough to use the remains...

The girl with secret feathers in her skin and strange bones jutting out beneath her clothes is resigned to her fate. The stories say monsters must die and what else could the budding transformation mean but that she is a monster? When her family finds out and grows monstrous themselves, ready to tear her to pieces in the street, salvation comes from an unexpected source...