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XCIX - Echoes of the Blade

Author: Andy Whitte
last update Petsa ng paglalathala: 2024-08-10 22:13:19
The night fell like a hostile shroud.

The symbol of the Sons of the Blade sat on the central table next to Maddox’s whiskey, a silent reminder of what was coming. No one touched it. No one ignored it.

Amalia glanced at it from the balcony, the wind lifting her hair. Max stood beside her in silence, hands resting on the railing. Dax smoked on the stairs, as if he needed distance not to explode.

But it was Maddox who broke the silence from the center of the room, his voice firm like a sentence:

"T
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