The room they threw Eyrix into was small, white, and far too clean. The door shut with a heavy clang, sealing him inside with nothing but the faint hum of electricity and the weight of the collar around his throat.He stood there for a moment, breathing hard, the echoes of Ryder’s gaze still clinging to his skin like frost.Then the memories came. They always did when he was trapped.Ironclaw Dominion had smelled of smoke, stone and blood of old power and older cruelty. He could still see it if he closed his eyes—the high, arched ceilings, the banners stitched with their sigil, the throne carved from the bones of fallen enemies. It had been beautiful in the way a blade was beautiful and just as deadly.You are a disgrace, Aeron’s voice echoed in his mind, sharp and cold. He remembered kneeling in the center of the great hall, wrists bound behind his back, blood dripping onto the polished floor. Markus and Darius had stood on either side of him, their faces hard, their eyes glowing wit
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