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The streets of White Roaring grew fangs at night.
It was unfair for the masked Ram to see so much when the people of Ettenia couldn’t even see the face of the monarch that ruled them.
“Weapons?” the butler asked, palm outstretched. “No, thank you.” Arthie smiled. “I have my own.”
There was a greed in his gaze, as if he feared missing the world by giving in to a blink.
“We all have our secrets or the world would be out of currency. Isn’t that right, darling?”
“Or is it a sin when it’s me and an achievement to be applauded when it’s those in power?
Arthie didn’t sell her goods for cheap. Secrets were meant to ferment; they aged well. The longer they sat, the higher their value.
She almost felt sorry for him, until he looked up at her and winked slowly, with vanity. “Every good love story starts with a bullet to the heart.”
After all, fear became hate when it festered long enough. The world always teemed with darkness, Ettenia had just given it a new name.
She was, simply put, a tempest in a bottle, tiny and simmering and ready to obliterate.
The one who draws Calibore free is our savior. The one who wields Calibore is Ettenia’s right and true leader.
She was still a child, but when you saw the cruelty of the world firsthand, you became a little cruel yourself.
They collected trophies for civilizing countries that had never asked for a redefinition of the word.
Flick shivered at the words carved into the architrave: mortui vivos docent. The dead teach the living.
Colonists, they called themselves. The Ceylani didn’t have a word for that yet because they’d never faced people like that before: kind on the outside, greed and devilry on the inside.
They wore scarlet uniforms, sharp and commanding, as if they were righting the world’s wrongs. Their weapons were the stuff of cowards, allowing them to kill from a distance, rifles firing faster than their enemies could run.
The Wolf of White Roaring knew what the world saw when they looked at Arthie Casimir: driftwood washed up on a faraway land, lone and assuming. They couldn’t have been more wrong.
