Fate Wrote His Name
And now, he was mine.
With a swift movement, I lunged forward, my claws wrapping around his waist. He was shorter than I had imagined, lean but strong beneath my grip.
The king’s scream rang in my ears.
“NO! STOP HIM!”
Too late.
I thrust into the sky, the prince held tightly in my grasp. Below, the castle shrank into nothingness, the screams of humans fading into silence.
I expected him to struggle. To fight.
But he did nothing.
Fred did not thrash. He did not cry out. He did not even blink.