Meet my Overprotective Brothers
The final staircase felt like the ascent to an executioner’s block. Each step Elara took echoed with the hollow chime of a funeral bell, the obsidian stone beneath her boots vibrating with the screams of the dying army far below.
At the summit’s threshold, the boy stood waiting. Leo, Vance’s youngest son, was a heartbreaking sight. His small frame was encased in armor too heavy for him, and his eyes once a bright, playful hazel were leaking trails of thick, indigo smoke. He raised his black-bladed spear, his movements jerky, like a marionette being pulled by invisible, cruel strings.