Chapter 353: Bones & Relics
Stryg stood over the corpse of the lamia. Agee’s lifeless eyes stared up at him, her expression frozen in a mix of anger and surprise. Blood seeped from the gaping hole where her throat had once been.
“What was that!?” Plum yelled frantically at the display of savagery.
Stryg calmly chewed the warm lamia flesh, blood dripping from his blue lips before he swallowed. He wiped the blood from his mouth with the back of his hand and glanced at his companions, “That was for Bril.”
“Bril…? Who’s Bril?!” Plum asked.
“She was my tribemate. We grew up together…”
Tauri didn’t hear the rest of his story. His words fell on deaf ears. She stared in numb shock at Stryg’s blood-stained shirt and Agee’s body lying next to him.
Was this always Stryg? Was he always like this? Had she just forgotten who he was?
Yes… Tauri thought. A cold shiver ran down her spine as she began to grasp the full implications of that grim answer. This was the man who was the heir to Ebon Lord legacy, the next in a long line of powerful tyrants, who Tauri now realized would be no different than his predecessors.
“Ah, dammit, Stryg!” Plum yelled frustratedly. “I know the lamias killed your friends, but there were better ways to handle that! At the very least we could have asked her more questions before you butchered her!”