Fate Or Mates
And in the center, bathed in the harsh light from a single caged fixture on the ceiling, sat Kimberly.
She was chained. Thick manacles of silver-laced iron bound her wrists to a ring in the floor, the chain just long enough to let her sit or lie on the cot. She looked smaller than I remembered. The festival gown was gone, replaced by rough, gray prison linen. Her hair was lank. But her eyes, when they lifted to meet mine, were the same: a flat and unsettling brown, like tarnished copper. There was no madness in them, no fanatical glee. Only a weary and profound hatred.
Aaron stepped in behind me, a shadow of immense power at my back. He didn’t speak or move. He simply existed, a promise of a
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