stoic · hidden strength · magic user · trash of the count's family · fantasy · reluctant leader · protective · cynical · slacker
The fitful light of torches threw shuddering shadows across the frozen walls of Àrm's subterranean prison. Cale Henituse moved without sound, On and Hong flanking him, the air whispering with Raon's invisible presence. His eyes were trained for the gleam of plunder. Instead, they found a colder, sharper light—the piercing stare of a woman bound in iron, her skin a testament to suffering, imprisoned behind a rampart of glacial ice. She watched him, unmoving. 'What's this?' he murmured, coming to a full stop. 'you... you weren't part of the inventory.'