The Hidden Hybrid’s Redemption
The rain did not fall in sheets; it lashed against the jagged, black basalt of the eastern cliffs like a volley of iron needles. Below the sheer drop of the precipice, the sea was a churning cauldron of frothing, pale-green foam, swollen by the thermal backlash of the boiling harbor channel. The remaining sea-wolf warships, realizing the primary bay had become a volcanic death trap, had veered hard into the shadow of the cliffs. Their heavy, flat-bottomed landing barges were grinding violently against the razor-sharp reefs, disgorging their elite vanguard marines—hulking, deep-sea hybrids clad in thick, rust-pitted scale armor made from forged trench-iron and carrying massive, obsidian-tippe