Claiming the RUNT
His auburn hair was matted with grit, and a streak of dried soot marked his pale cheek, but his eyes—wide, terrified, and defiant—held a flicker of something I hadn't seen in this territory for ten years.
"Aderan, step back," I ordered, my eyes shifting to my enforcer. "Obi, I’m going to ask you once. If you’re lying to me, you know exactly what happens to those who waste my time. Where did you get that stone?"
Obi clutched the heavy, dark blue crystal in his palm, his knuckles straining as he tried to shield it. "I found it in the scrap piles by the ventilation shaft. I didn't steal it from the inventory, Cassius. I just... I saw it when the debris fell."
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