"You'll have plenty more chances."
Unfortunately, Calix's words turned out to be painfully accurate.
Every night for the next week, the Dragon Emperor and his consort received visits from unwelcome, violent guests. The Kel that had once felt conflicted about killing another human suddenly found herself in a near-constant state of kill or be killed.
And it was almost sickening how quickly she adapted.
"Ugh, is it just me, or have the attacks started getting closer together?" Kel yawned, ripping her knife out of a man's chest and letting him fall to the ground.
"It would seem so," Calix agreed, retracting his own weapon from the bloody corpse in front of him.
Just as they were pushing the bodies off the edge of the terrace attached to their room, Thane and Lucy burst through the door.
