The echo of Shasha's furious, commanding scream was still vibrating violently off the stone walls when the wooden door of the servants' quarters was suddenly thrown open with a slow, catastrophic force.
The air in the room instantly turned to absolute ice. The dim light flickered and died down to a suffocating, pale blue glimmer as the towering silhouette of Sovereign Hebner Grand stepped over the threshold. His robes billowed behind him like frozen smoke, and his slitted golden eyes flashed with a lethal, territorial amber fire that instantly pinned both humans to the floor.
Hellino, frozen in the delicate, porcelain body of Shasha, felt the sheer, crushing weight of the Demon Lord's aura slam into his chest. His breath hitched, his small fists remaining clenched tightly at his sides.
