The Hidden Hybrid’s Redemption
Killian rasped, his deep voice carrying a heavy, metallic rattle that vibrated directly through his chest and into my knees.
He was hanging by the sheer, unyielding force of my grip, his massive, broad-shouldered frame suspended over a mile of empty, fog-choked air. The heavy, frost-tempered chains wrapped around his torso clinked with a slow, ominous rhythm in the updraft, their heavy iron links pulling him down with a relentless, mechanical gravity. Yet, his dark amber eyes, ringed by a desperate, bloodthirsty black, remained fixed entirely on my face, refusing to let me look down at the abyss.