Summer Fairy Vampire
Warriors moved past us without a sound, their boots wrapped in heavy cloth, pulling long steel blades from hidden racks behind the wall tapestries.
Dustin stopped at the top of the stairwell, his hand resting on the pommel of his broadsword. He closed his eyes for three seconds, letting his breath out slow and steady through his teeth. When he opened them, the warm gold in his eyes was gone, replaced by the flat, cold crimson of pure demon energy.
Now, Dustin commanded through the link. Cut the lights.
Outside, the heavy iron sconces along the northern wall went black all at once. The loud cheers in the courtyard sputtered into sudden confusion, and three miles away in the dark, the first li