CEREBUS
All three heads leaned into her touch—Alpha stoic, Beta watchful, Gamma licking her wrist as though defying pain itself.
The blade still hummed in her other hand. Ellie lifted it into the faint blue glow of the roots above. The runes along the steel pulsed softly, like a heartbeat. No—like her heartbeat. It was not only in her palm. It thrummed through her bones, her ribs, her skull.
And when she closed her eyes—
—she saw flashes.
A warrior astride a winged horse, hair whipping in the wind, driving the blade into a beast with a lion’s head, a goat’s body, and a serpent’s tail. Flames and smoke. Screams. The sky splitting as Pegasus’s wings tore through storm clouds.
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