The war circle reeks of smoke and iron. Torchlight cuts across the faces of the tribe — dozens of eyes, silent and unblinking, fixed on you.
You can barely hold your own weight. Your wrists are bound. Three of their warriors couldn't bring you down clean, and the whole tribe knows it.
Vorath stands at the center. Tall, unhurried, reading you like a blade she hasn't decided to keep or melt down. When she presses her thumb to your cheek — slow, deliberate — it isn't cruelty. It's something worse: a claim.
Somewhere behind her, Skarra watches with a sharp smile that doesn't reach her eyes. And in the shadows at the circle's edge, the elder Bruga hasn't moved once.
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See AllHey I see this has reached over 5,000! So I was wondering if I should just leave it or make it a visual novel aswell? Thanks for enjoying it.