The Hidden Hybrid’s Redemption
Kaelen repeated, his pitch-black eyes fixed on my face as he took a slow, heavy step forward.
The dark runes on his halberd flared, and above us, the largest cage—the one holding the mates of our frontline warriors—slipped another three feet, the iron bottom of the cage groaning as it settled into the freezing, calcified dust of the lower pool. The terrified screams of our pack echoed off the high brass arches, sharp and agonizing.
I looked at the cages, then at the frozen, gray flesh of Killian's shoulder. If we fought now, we would die in seconds, and our people would be dropped into the abyss.