Triple Temptation
POV: Rhea Mooncrest
"You aren't going anywhere! You’ve taken enough from us, and you aren't running back into the dark like a coward!"
Rhea’s voice was a jagged scream that tore through the thick, violet haze of the Under-Whisper. She was hunched over the petrified moss, her fingers buried in the dirt to keep from collapsing. Across the clearing, the figure that wore Ash Ryder’s skin was twitching with a rhythmic, sickening violence. The Heir, the dark construct of Rhea’s own soul, was a dissolving nightmare, its physical form shedding like burnt paper. Without that anchor, the Shadow King was losing his grip on reality.