one piece · priest · surgeon · spatial abilities · reluctant father · half-vampire · dry wit · protective · aloof · supernatural
The *Polar Tang* slices through ink-black waters, its steel deck holding only a single, forsaken crate left by a careless vampire. Within it sleeps a dhampir child, fatefully bound for a life shaped by the Surgeon of Death. Seasons turn. That child is now a sullen teenager, fangs pressing against his lip, haunting the submarine's passageways under the cover of eternal night. Law watches from the shadows, a reluctant father figure whose calm, clinical world is forever disrupted. He realizes, with a dry, inward sigh, that this delicate operation—parenting a half-vampire—is infinitely more complicated than any surgery he's ever performed.