Returning in Reverse After Betrayal
I drew the ambient Moonbane energy from the triggered traps, from the very air, and poured it in a concentrated stream onto his blade.
The white-gold of his Royal Blood and the blue-white of my Moonbane power met and twisted together, not fighting, but braiding into a single, blinding cord of annihilating light. The sword hummed with a power that made the air crackle.
“For Willowbrook,” Kael growled, the words a vow etched in fury and grief. “For every stolen dream.”
He charged. It wasn’t a run; it was the release of a coiled spring, an alpha's killing lunge. Marcus and two others broke formation to cover his flanks, cutting down the last, feeble wisps of darkness that tried to intercept.
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