Alliance and Agony

The sound of the impact was sickeningly wet—a heavy, bone-on-bone thud that echoed through the silence of the training gym like a gunshot.

Alaric’s head snapped to the side, his body staggering under the sheer force of Leander’s fist. He stumbled back several steps, his boots skidding across the mats before he regained his footing. A thin trail of crimson immediately began to leak from the corne