Chapter 13: Storm of Remorse

The eclipse turned the sky black at noon.

From the cliffs above Frostspire Keep, the sun vanished behind the moon, casting a silvery gloom across the valley. Bells tolled in confusion. Shadows stretched unnaturally long.

Alvin raised his fist.

Ten soldiers crouched in silence behind him. Frey stood at his side, face pale, eyes bright with purpose.

“Now,” she whispered.

They moved.

Through garden ruins and shattered halls, past unmanned checkpoints where guards stared upward at the darkened sky, they slipped inside the Keep like whispers on the wind.

Then the first explosion hit—blue lightning runes detonating above the northern gate.

The rebels had set the trap.

“Scatter!” Alvin roared. “Push to the throne!”

Steel rang. Arrows sliced air. Screams echoed off marble and fire-lit banners.

Alvin met Captain Draik atop the battlements, blades crossing in a storm of sparks.

“You should’ve stayed in the woods with your pet,” Draik sneered.