Bloodscript: Survival Game of the Reborn
* *Sometimes the throne decides to claim its own seat filler…*
I’d written that once.
Half asleep, half high on caffeine. A stupid line in a draft titled **“Thronebound”** I’d abandoned after three chapters.
I watched the man I didn’t even know the name of be dragged up each step to the throne I’d never finished writing and felt my throat close.
“No,” I whispered.
No one heard me.
The man hit the top step on his knees.
He clawed at the stone, trying to turn around, to scramble back down. His body didn’t care. His spine straightened, shoulders forced back like hands were under his arms, hauling him up, up, up—