The Dragon's Silent Shadow
The sun was dying.
It wasn't a violent death, but a slow, suffocating strangulation. High above the churning gray waters of the Oakhaven harbor, the moon slid across the face of the sun like a coin placed over the eye of a corpse. The light shifted from the harsh, industrial white of morning to a bruised, unnatural twilight.
On the bridge of the Sovereign, Tristan stood motionless.