ALPHA'S REGRET, QUEEN'S REVENGE
"Pawns in a game already lost. What matters is Hailey’s heart. Her mind. If I control both, I control the realms."
Tristan, the brute, asked with a chuckle, "And if the Wolf King intervenes?"
I let a chuckle bubble from my throat. "Let him. The wolf may growl, but the sea drowns all."
Later, in the crystal chamber, I summoned the living core of our newest army. Shadows moulded with water, hate bred in salt and bone. My secret weapon: the Abyssborn.
They rose from the dark pits, humanoid in form but monstrous in nature. Silent. Unfeeling. Loyal.