The Living Soil

"Master..." One of the burly men barely got the word out before two daggers struck him and the other man squarely in the back.

Harper attacked cleanly, pulled back at once, then slipped into her storage space.

Piper sensed something was wrong. She left Aaron in the courtyard and rushed outside.

Her three subordinates were lying side by side on the ground, their bodies giving off the sour stench of