ROGUE BLOOD
The chessboard is live, and every piece, every move, every shadow, is under my control.
I breathe in slowly, exhale. The night hums around me, the city alive with ordinary life that is anything but ordinary now. And I smile, sharp and small, the kind that promises inevitability.
“Let’s see how they handle it,” I whisper to myself, and I know the countdown has begun. I’ve positioned my pieces, mapped the streets, infiltrated the lives. There’s no going back now. The settlement is my arena.
And the war is already inside.