The Dragon's Vengeance
"That's impossible... You fell into the abyss! Nothing comes back from the Abyss of Beasts alive! You're a ghost... a dead, useless cripple!"
"If I am a ghost," I stepped closer, the temperature in the room dropping sharply despite the lingering flames, "then I have come straight from hell to drag you down with me."
Dorian shrieked in absolute terror, stumbling backward over his own feet and crashing hard onto the carpeted floor of the platform, completely stripped of his arrogant bravado.
The remaining nobles in the hall watched in horrified awe, paralyzed by the sheer dominance radiating from my frame. No one dared to speak. No one dared to move.