Chapter 105: Lines Drawn
The portal spit them out onto frozen ground just as the sky started bleeding purple. Darius rolled, pulling the hybrid children close as reality shook around them.
The scaled girl was unconscious now, her network link flickering like a dying lightbulb. The other kids crowded together, their mixed-blood powers crackling weakly.
"Where are we?" Luna gasped, blood magic still smoking from her hands. "Neutral territory," Death answered, his shadows wrapping around the children like protective blankets.
"For now." But even as he spoke, the horizon burst with light. Not the warm glow of morning – this was harsh, artificial, angry. Council enforcement ships hung in the air like metal vultures, their speakers blaring across the desert.
