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“Watch your tone,”Kaithar growls menacingly.
“Kaithar, please. Don’t. Let me handle this.Father, justlisten.” Now there’s steel in her voice. “It’s about Rick.”
“What is it, Finley?” The baron’s tone changes, becoming cold and dangerous. “What about Aderick?”
I hear footsteps; Kaithar stealing across the cold ground. My commander is perceptive. He’ll want to be closer to her, in case the baron tries anything stupid.
Before I realize it, I’m moving, too.
I surprise myself.
I don’t really know what I’m planning to do, but I just don’tlikethis.
“Father, I beg of you. You mustn’t do anything in haste. Aderick… it isn’t good news. He’s been badly hurt.”
“What?”The baron makes a strange sound; a strangled cry of rage.“This is all because of you…”
Slap.
The sound of an open hand hitting flesh resounds loudly in my ears.
“That’s enough.”Kaithar steps in. There’s a scuffle.
Finley’s father roars as Kaith restrains him.“Get your hands off me, you fucking filthy Vikurian.”
Kaithar just chuckles. He’s got the patience of a saint, really, and he’s well able to handle himself, but still.
Nobody talks to my commander like that.
Nobodygets to treat Finley Solisar like that.
Anger surges through me, so intense it burns white-hot. My head swims. A faint red haze descends across my vision, and I’m overcome with a sudden urge to kill that man.
It’s that old battle-lust feeling, because the shadows of war have never left me.
But there’s something else, too.
A certain madness.
This is the part of me I’ve tried so hard to keep suppressed.
It’s been there since the change; barely understood, always lurking beneath the surface, threatening to strip me of everything that makes me civilized.
Hehither.
More than that… he’s drawn blood.
Herblood.
The scent slices through the air like a finely honed blade, obliterating every single thought in my consciousness. It wraps around my soul and pulls me away from this mundane existence, transcending life and death.
I feel impossibly light on my feet. Power surges through me. I could kill that man with a single hand, wrapping my fingers around his feeble neck, crushing his throat, extinguishing his life in an instant.
The world around me becomes a blur as I move faster than even I thought possible. I fly through the doors; down the corridors, passing a couple of servants who don’t even see me.
All they would feel is a rush of wind; a disturbance in the atmosphere.
I couldn’t care less.
