1# The Beast
8## Chapter Seven: The First Song
2## Chapter One: The Quiet Before the Name
9## Chapter Eight: A Friend’s Fear
3## Chapter Two: Footprints Without Feet
10## Chapter Nine: Night of the Tremors
4## Chapter Three: The Story That Bites
11## Chapter Ten: Lessons Passed
5## Chapter Four: Whispers in the Village
12## Chapter Eleven: The Silence Answers
6## Chapter Five: Lessons of the Hunter
13## Chapter Twelve: Name Refused, Life Continued
7## Chapter Six: Patterns in the Shadows
