The Hidden Hybrid’s Redemption
"You brought iron to a temple of fire. Kneel."
Lord Sunder, a gaunt, silver-bearded hybrid clad in heavy, velvet-trimmed scale armor, raised his head, his face twisted in a desperate, aristocratic rage. "We built the dry-docks that floated your flagship, hybrid abomination! You cannot strip us of our ancestral charters! Without our sulfur refineries, your vanguard will starve before the winter freeze!"
"Then we will burn your refineries and forge our own from the ash," I snarled, a cold, predatory smile cutting through my features as my fangs fully extended past my lips.