Against All Odds
The cold torchlight flickered against the damp walls, casting her in a hellish glow, her whip a dark serpent in her grasp.
"Luna Celine..." one of the younger warriors whispered, his voice cracking, eyes wide with fear as he dared to look up at her. His name was Rylan, barely twenty summers, fresh scars from his first rogue battle still healing across his forearm. I remembered the pride in his eyes when he took his warrior's oath, the fire in his spirit. Now, he was little more than a trembling pup before the wrath of Celine.
"You failed me," Celine said, her voice low and cutting, each word a blade slipping between ribs. She let the whip uncoil from her grasp, its tail snaking across the co
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