The Echo of a Name I Should Not Know

I am Ilona Varga, a mapmaker's girl with an ailing father and an empty purse. When a winter storm forces me into the shadowed halls of the forgotten Varad Manor, I find more than just shelter. I find its master, Zsigmond, a man cursed into a form of shifting thorns and sorrowful shadow, a beast to all who see him. But not to me. In his desolate eyes, I see the kind stranger who has visited my dreams since childhood, offering comfort I never understood. The local lorekeeper, an old woman named Csilla, tells me the path is clear: to break his curse, I must willingly accept his monstrous form. As I grow to love the gentle soul trapped within the terrifying shell, our unspoken bond deepens. But the curse fights back, twisting Zsigmond into something more dangerous, and a strange familiarity about the manor whispers that I've been here before. Why do I recognize a melody no one has played for a century, and how do I know the beast's true name when even he has forgotten it?