Echoes of Ruin
Name: Kellan Reed
Partner: Ronan Draxmere
I stared at the parchment like it had personally offended me.
I knew exactly whose idea this was.
Professor Marric believed in battlefield bonding. Break a bone together, save a life, come back breathing and you earned the right to trust each other. He didn’t care about bloodline rivalries or personal shit. He cared about results.
And someone, somewhere, decided pairing me with the Bloodpine heir made tactical sense.
By midmorning, we were already in the northern woods.
No backup. No faculty shadowing us. Just two enchanted pendants that pinged location every fifteen minutes and a map with four known sigil points to check for ward breaches.