The Bloodstained Ring

Lucius Pov

Then I heard footsteps. They were running. I didn't think, so I moved, taking the stairs two at a time, I sprinted toward the second floor.

A door slammed open. "Damn it!" I charged down the hallway just as a bedroom window exploded outward.

Glass burst into the morning air. By the time I reached it, a dark figure had already landed on the roof of the neighboring house with impossible b