How I Met My Mates
"They think we're just another High Council boundary patrol coming to purge their outposts."
"Then let's go introduce ourselves," I said softly, my voice carrying that low, double-layered Sovereign resonance that caused the frost on the stone battlements to fracture into spiderweb patterns.
We moved to the heavy iron descent cage—a massive, open-air lift suspended by ancient steel cables embedded deep within the mountain's core.
Fifty chosen Blackwood Reapers, clad in winterized tactical armor and bearing heavy silver shields, loaded into the secondary cages on our flanks.
The mechanical winch groaned violently, the ancient gears grinding against ice as the heavy floor gave way, dropping us