The Hidden Hybrid’s Redemption
The vanguard soldiers screamed, shielding their eyes as the sheer majesty of the true heir's bloodline pressed down on their chests like a physical weight, forcing many to drop to their knees in involuntary submission.
"Look at me!" I commanded, my crimson pupils ringed by liquid gold flashing with a dangerous, ancient fire as I stepped onto the foot of the bridge, my fangs fully extended. "Your High King told you that you were marching to hunt a rogue pack. Look upon the bloodline he tried to exterminate, and tell me who holds the right to the throne!"
The commander of the vanguard column, his silver armor caked in black clay, dragged himself up the stone steps, his breathing ragged as h