Chrome and Claws
“Don’t be. Lyandra was lost long before you arrived. But now… she walks a darker path, one I fear may bind her to forces I have to kill her for.”
Raven’s chest tightened. “Then we’ll face it together.”
But even as she spoke, she couldn’t shake the echo of Serenya’s words.
Fire devours.
And the crimson glow in her veins pulsed like a warning.
That night, as Raven finally found herself alone, a sound drifted through her chambers.
A whisper, it came from within.
*Raven Blackthorne, We are one now,”
the Hollow Blade murmured in her mind, its voice deep and ancient, thrumming like iron against bone and my fire always consumes.