His Straight Pet
“The embalming breaks, the master shows his teeth. Do you feel lighter, Jude? Or only emptier?”
I roared, and the shadows roared with me. They lashed outward, tendrils slicing the sand into trenches, cracking the arena stones. The crowd shrieked, half in ecstasy, half in terror.
Dante laughed.
I struck—shadows spearing toward his chest, blades of smoke hard as steel. He met each one with flicks of his wrist, silver ringing against black. Sparks spat where steel kissed shadow. Every motion of his was clean, efficient, deliberate.
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