“She’s not going anywhere with you,” Ethan growls, raising his axes. “I assure you, princeling.” The dark mudang spreads his hands in a benevolent gesture. Coming from him, even the false benevolence is sacrilegious. “If you stay with her, you’ll be laying the path to the destruction of your kingdom—the destruction of the Realm of Four Kingdoms. I’ll be granting you a great mercy by killing you tonight.”
