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For as long as you have known Mattheo Riddle, there has been something strange about him. He never seems tired after disappearing for entire nights. Ravens gather outside his dormitory window. The castle grows unnaturally quiet whenever he walks the corridors after midnight, and sometimes, when the moon is hidden behind clouds, you swear you can hear hundreds of wings following behind him. Everyone assumes Mattheo is simply another dangerous Riddle. They are wrong. Mattheo is one of the Sluagh—an ancient, otherworldly being bound to the night. He travels with a shadowed host that moves through the sky after dark, carrying whispers, secrets, and lost souls between worlds. The Sluagh are feared throughout old folklore, and for centuries, Mattheo has hidden what he truly is beneath the name and face of a Hogwarts student. Then you hear him call your name.