Aether's Obsession
Draven appeared for exactly thirty-seven seconds.
He dropped from a hovering drone like a shadow, twin blades already drawn. The first Vorathian lost its head in a clean arc, black ichor spraying in a wide fan across the deck. The second tried to shift forms, bones cracking and reforming into something larger, something ancient, before Draven drove a blade through its eye socket and twisted. The creature convulsed, limbs jerking in grotesque spasms, before collapsing in a heap of half-melted flesh. He stood over it for a single breath, expression unreadable, checking for movement that never came.