Final Struggle. {4} The duel II

The Lady in White gave him a look of half smile, half reverence.

"You won, silly. That's what happened."

She stood up and gracefully walked toward him, her presence washing over the room like sunlight through stained glass.

"You fought like a titan. I'm so proud of you." Then she knelt beside him and whispered, "The Blood Clan is no more."

Rex stared at her.

"What?"

Her smile widened.

"I took the liberty of cleaning up while you napped," she said sweetly while brushing imaginary dust off his shoulder. "Your allies were collapsing. You were unconscious. So I did what any good mother would do."

She stood again, her dress fluttering slightly from the residual energy still radiating in the air.

"I claimed their world. Every underground city. Every lab. Every drop of their precious blood."