The Hidden Hybrid’s Redemption
He was draped in the tattered, ash-gray robes of the First Sovereign Court—an order of ancient dark sorcerers believed to have been eradicated four centuries before the Council ever built its forge.
The rider halted his undead steed ten feet short of our fresh, glowing boundary stone. He raised a withered, frost-bitten hand, holding an ancient, blood-stained iron spindle that hummed with a cold, terrifying resonance.
He didn't look at the warriors. He didn't look at Killian.
His empty, socketless eyes fixed directly on the gold runes glowing on my palm.
"The Titan was the lock, little Queen," the rider’s voice rasped, echoing not through the air, but directly inside the marrow of my skull, c