Deep Inside
Slouched, wild, barefoot and sharp-eyed.
King Vaelen Thornborne.
The fae monarch responsible for slaughtering half her order.
“You smell like iron,” he drawled, head tilting. “And rage.”
Seris squared her shoulders, her cloak heavy with frost. “I came to retrieve what your soldiers stole. The treaty stone. Return it, and I leave.”
He rose with the lazy elegance of a predator. Taller than any man, his shoulders wrapped in dark petals and leather armor, his skin kissed with ash and moonlight.