Theron didn't feel a great bout of shock when the spear was suddenly taken from him despite the circumstances. The Nightingale Ancestor Spear was designed for those with the Nightingale Bloodline.
What he didn't expect was that the Matriarch also had Nightingale blood. Her reaction toward Sadie's death had been substantially more aggressive than her reaction toward the Patriarch's death, so the fact they might be related didn't even cross Theron's mind.
But not only were Patriarch Nightingale and Matriarch Macie related… the latter was actually the former's daughter.
This was simply how old Patriarch Nightingale was. Even his own daughter was quickly reaching the end of her lifespan while he was still in his relatively young middle ages.
But now it was Macie who was slowly regaining her youth, and this time through means that were under her own power alone.
The result?
