A Nerd for the Hockey Alpha Captain
"He's been humming to us. He said he knows the lullaby too. He said Maya taught him."
Elara made a small sound and stepped back. Her mark was now burning white, not flickering.
From the cellar darkness, a man stepped out.
He was not The First. Not the mountain-shouldered shape from the crater.
He was... normal. Too normal. Light brown hair. Kind face. Human-looking. Wearing a faded PackHouse sweater that was too small for him. But his eyes were grey. Completely grey. No white, no black. Just storm cloud grey. And on his neck, a mark like mine, but old, scarred over, like it had been burned and healed a hundred times.