As soon as the words left her mouth, a suffocating silence descended upon the cave.
Orion's eye twitched as he shot Thorne a cautious glance. 'This little maiden… she's certainly direct, but she doesn't think. We just finished explaining that Thorne's Star Pattern is shattered, his lifespan is drastically shortened, and he's even lost the ability to father children. And then she comes out with something like that. Isn't that just twisting the knife?'
Thorne's dark green, fathomless eyes weighed upon her for a moment before he suddenly smirked.
His gaze was sinister and discordant, a terrifying crimson seeping into his dark eyes. "I'd love to betray the Beast God Contract and have a cub with you," he said, "but unfortunately, my Beast Crystal was carved out, my Star Pattern is shattered. I've lost that ability."
