THE SECRET GAME OF LOVE
The ambient shadows around him didn't merely cast—they detached.
A dense, inky plume of darkness unspooled from the edge of the pillar, coiling around Caelen’s arm like a living, sentient ribbon of smoke. With a flick of his wrist, the shadow surged forward across the floorboards, silently wrapping around the base of a heavy titanium equipment crate and lifting it three inches off the ground without a single mechanical sound or a whisper of wind.
There was no physical strain, no heavy breathing. It was pure, telekinetic shadow-weaving the hallmark of an elite, ancient vampire strain manifested in a toddler.