Aether's Obsession
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Up close, without the buffer of negotiation tables and careful protocol, the full reality of him arrived all at once.
He was enormous. Eight feet of warlord architecture, shoulders broad enough to carry the weight his title demanded, a body that had spent centuries being exactly as dangerous as it needed to be. His Nocthrim horns rose dark and curved from his brow, and up here in the spire's deeper light, they cast long shadows across the floor. His Vyrkath heritage showed in the faint scaling along his jaw and forearms, the skin there darker, harder, the kind of surface that had turned blades before and would again. His Kragvorn blood was subtler, visible mostly in the way he moved, the con