The dark figure stepped forward into the flickering torchlight, his dark boots splashing through the rising black water on the stone floor.It was Varick.Half of his face was covered in jagged, pulsing black veins from where Valen had struck him earlier, and his dark armor was scorched and dripping with dark blood. But in his right hand, he held a long, black bone dagger that pulsed with the corrupted purple energy of the leyline.Behind him, two dozen shadow soldiers stepped out from the darkness, their red eyes burning like dying embers in the dim tunnel."Varick," I snarled, stepping in front of the frightened crowd of women and children."You should have run while you had the chance, Silver Queen," Varick sneered, raising his bone dagger. "Corvus knew you would use these hidden rat tunnels to escape. You walked straight into a trap!"Behind me, the mothers screamed, pulling their children back against the damp stone walls."Captain Thorne!" I called out, my voice clear and firm.
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