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~~LYRIC VAELGOR~~
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The monster was coming for me, and I was still in chains.
My wrists burned. The cuffs had dug deep into the flesh, metal biting with every twitch of movement. Same for my ankles—rubbed raw from all the thrashing. I pulled again. Harder. My muscles screamed. My back arched against the cold iron table beneath me. But nothing gave.
I was trapped.
And he was still coming.
The Khra’gixx had completed his shift, and what stood in front of me now was no longer a man. It was a creature made of hate and magic and violence. His body was grotesquely massive—his shoulders brushed the arch of the ceiling, and his claws pointed out like hooked blades. His eyes were pits of black.
He smiled, and it wasn't a cute smile.
I tried to scream, but my voice caught.
Then it be
