enne
kitchen in the Alpha's w
flower extract; the broth came out clear and golden, its smell faint, the kind t
liquid and poured it into
a lieutenant at the courtyard g
Arena before dawn, watching the elit
rrior'
le Pack. Live steel, and weak
k and headed for t
our Gamma guards crossed
ts are not re
and held it up in front of him. Eleanor's si
to deliver medicinal br
He scanned the Alpha scent lingering on me, then glanced down at th
o
rs, the elevated wal
f metal on metal below rattled my ears, with beast-like roars mixed
my gaze stopped on the octag
n was u
, gleaming in the morning light. A double-edged alloy broadsword mov
rs lunged at him from f
of them. The lead one flew over the sa
a
and fell to the ground. T
eyes cut through the dust, pinning me
n the sword, and walk
tched. The impact had snapped his belt, and a silver-tipped throwin
too slow. I could n
side me shouted, but t
ross the arena, comi
wa
oing into flesh wasnt of me. Dark red blood spray
d between me
ow head-on. The silver-tipped tactical knife went clean
met his blood, the wound
lesh around the blade went black at once. T
s in his neck all standing out. His feet stayed pla
ingers went to my face an
ad ever used their own fle
his mind had not been involved at all, a
te smoke still rising. He did not look at the wound. He wa
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