Underwing (Volume 1)

Jeiokha was the sole survivor of his family's fate. The slaughter at his childbirth deeply troubled all creatures of Vawkuu, a once peaceful forest guarded by powers beyond telling. The children of Vawkuu were warned to give the child snake up to the Beast responsible for the death of his kin, lest they bring themselves to a painful demise. All that Jeiokha treasured was about to be broken, and new harsh realities would be introduced. Jeiokha was in the world, but the world was also in Jeiokha. He was guarded by friends, cursed by enemies, but Jeiokha had the ultimate power to say who he was - power that would make or break him. And with him, the Earth.