Cassius:
Just for a moment, when the portal lights flashed in my eyes, I was hesitant about stepping through it. The last time I was there, I was only six; it was the place that nightmares are made of. I told them all that I didn't remember because, even then, I felt like being fearful was a weakness a true Alpha King shouldn't possess. But I remembered every second until my mother came in swinging her sword, and then I blacked out.
I was playing in the forest when the whoosh of wind behind me startled me badly enough to make me turn and see what was looming just behind me.
I remember the smell of the earth as the dark-eyed creature dragged me across the forest floor.
I remember the creature's touch burning into my flesh like hot silver.
I remember it tying me down in its lair and h
