CROWNED BY BLOOD
Somehow, despite all our precautions, she had discovered I would be there.
Kai launched himself at the nearest hybrid with fluid grace, his partially shifted form a blur of deadly motion, he moved with the lethal precision of a predator born, every strike calculated to kill rather than wound. I moved to follow his lead, but froze as three more assassins closed in from the trees above, dropping from branches like hunting spiders.
Training flooded my mind with hours of grueling practice with Celeste, her voice echoing through my memory like a battle hymn: "Your power doesn't ask permission, Luna. It doesn't negotiate or plead. It demands absolute submission."