Rubble cracked beneath Velra's feet as she flipped backward.
She narrowly dodged Drayv's fist as it smashed into the ground.
Stone shards exploded outward.
She landed in a crouch.
But her breath was heavy, her arms trembling.
Karven didn't give her time.
He waved his hand forward.
A wall of metal spikes surged from the wreckage around her.
Rynka's echo voice shimmered through the zone.
It distorted sound, throwing off Velra's sense of where they were.
Three against one.
Three who once fought beside her.
Velra gritted her teeth and ducked under a twisted beam, vaulting sideways.
But the moment she landed, Karven was already there.
His eyes burned, not with rage, but with something worse.
Possession.
"You were mine."
"I trained you. I built you."
"And now you let some unknown man collar you like a pet?"
Velra dashed backward again.
She tried to draw them into open space.
Karven stepped forward, his blood threads twitching.
"If I can't have you, no one can."
