The Pretty Prince and the Beast King
PUREBLISSreturn of the unwanted daughteri will not expect anything from my ungrateful fathermy senior brother is too strongtrouble with father
The air felt charged, heavy with the ozone scent of a coming storm.
The climb back toward the northern docks was silent. Kaelor moved with a fluidity that shouldn't belong to a man who had lost his mutations. He was faster now, his body leaner, more efficient. Aradaa followed, his mind racing through thousands of lines of dead code, searching for the "glitch" the Overseer had mentioned.
"There," Vladya pointed.
A single, piercing needle of white light shot up from the northern horizon, cutting through the bruised violet of the sky. It wasn't the soft aurora of the souls. It was a laser, precise and cold.