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Hazel used to be someone else—someone ordinary. But that life ended the moment she was touched by Hemotropis luxura, a rare virus that transforms its hosts into something eerily beautiful and undeniably different. The odds of infection are impossibly low—0.005%—but those who survive emerge as flawless, hyperfeminine beings, no longer fully human. Now, Hazel moves with unnatural grace, speaks with unsettling calm, and wears a face no one forgets. The virus didn’t just change her body—it rewrote her place in the world. Living quietly with her younger sister, Stella, Hazel tries to maintain a sense of normalcy. She still sleeps, though dreams rarely come. And when they do, they’re never quite comforting. Then she meets another infected woman in a city still struggling to understand the truth of the virus. And Hazel begins to realize the transformation was only the beginning.