Alpha Orion
The Alpha's face was a mask of iron, but in his eyes—those eyes that had seen decades of blood, there was turmoil, raw and unmistakable.
Everyone knew what Orion had lost to human greed. His sister, his only family, his very soul. It was that grief, that rage, that had driven him to start the Great War. And now, after destroying the race that had taken everything from him, the goddess had bound him to one of them.
He didn't know if it was punishment for his sins, but he knew that the irony was a knife, and it was killing him slowly.
Seth sat back, silent, the weight of the revelation pressing down on him like stone. He did not know what frightened him more—the fact that it was true, or the s