The eyes of an ancient being fixed upon me, cold and piercing—grey as storm clouds, sharp as a blade. There was something unnerving in them, something that made the very air around me seem to still, as if the predator of the ages had reawakened to drag the world back into shadow.
"RRROOOAAARRR!"
The beast's roar crashed through the air, a ferocious sound that slammed into me like a tidal wave, attempting to push me back, to scatter me away from its prey. But it had made a grave mistake. Seo-yeon wasn't its prey. No. This beast was mine. And I would make sure it understood that the moment it refused to cooperate.
"Empress!?"
