Alpha Nox
I followed her line of sight to my father, “…but on him.
I thought I’d been seeing red before, but that was nothing compared to this. The magic I kept locked away for four long years reared its head, thrashing and snarling like a feral beast in desperate need of blood. It sank it’s claws into the wooden door of the closet I kept it locked in, the one tucked into the furthest reaches of my mind.
It gouged chunks of wood out of the door in a desperate bid to be freed. I fortified that door with everything I could. Iron bars, wooden slats, you name it. Anything to keep it from escaping, even if some sick part of me wanted just that.