The Alpha's Prickly Porcupine
"Mercer gave me a vessel that cannot break, cannot bleed, and cannot die."
She takes a predatory step forward, the artificial joints of her star-metal frame clicking softly against the grating.
Every movement she makes radiates an aura of cold, calculating cruelty, stripped of any lingering human fragility she once possessed. The dark magic humming beneath her porcelain skin pulses in rhythmic unison with the factory's alarms, tying her very existence to the beating heart of Mercer's industrial war machine. I tighten my grip on my daggers, my knuckles whitening as I stare into the eyes of the monster who murdered my mother and nearly destroyed Daryl.