The Wolf's Game
It is a sickly, grey-green, rotting color, stretched too tightly against a cheekbone that juts like a blade.
Elyra inhales sharply. “What in the gods…”
The Herald tilts his head sharply, too sharply, like a puppet whose strings have been yanked in the wrong direction. His entire body follows in a delayed, jerky shiver.
His voice, normally calm and echoing, bursts out of him in a distorted rasp: “T-Th-There will be…” His head twitches. “…a DELAY in the G-GAMES.”
Elyra steps in front of me.