Blood and Rain
He never saw the shadow detach itself from the glass pillar directly behind him.
Brynn slipped into the light with the absolute, terrifying silence of a ghost. Her gray fur was slick with rain, her expression entirely devoid of mercy or hesitation. Before Vane could even register a shift in the air pressure, Brynn’s broadsword cut through the space in a single, lightning-fast horizontal arc.
The steel was so swift, so clean, that Vane’s head was severed from his shoulders before his final, arrogant threat could even pass his lips. His body collapsed forward into the dirt like a felled sack of grain, the crystalline dagger slipping harmlessly from his lifeless fingers.
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