The Things That Should Obey
Lucien
I watched as she ran from the room. Her robes billowed out around her. The echo of her footsteps had barely faded when the beast lunged for me again. I didn't understand why it felt like she was already in danger.
Was this a residual echo of the connection that we once had? Or was this something new that I had no idea what to do with yet?
I twisted, my shadows lashing outward in a whip of black tendrils, but the hellhound crashed through them like a battering ram. The creature's bulk hit me full-force, driving me into the shattered remains of the glass display. Glass shards tore through leather and skin as I hit the ground. I grunted, the impact knocking the air from my lungs momentarily.
“Down,” I snarled, each syllable a command forged in fire an
