Chapter 104: Chapter 104

Her voice became laced with hundreds of others lending power to her command layer upon layer until the man couldn’t even begin to disobey it. The man’s legs stopped moving before he could round the corner and disappear. She could tell by the way he growled that he understood what was happening, and he was pissed by it.

“Turn around and come to the end of the stairwell,” she ordered in the same voice.

“Stop! You can’t do this! It’s not right!” the man growled in more of an animalistic tone than a human one.

“Silence!” she shouted, shutting up his protests. “You will not speak unless I ask you a question, and then you may only speak the truth.”

The old man stepped into the light of the moon, and the evil hatred in his eyes sent a fearful shiver down Neivayka’s spine. If she were to lift the thrall off him and set him free, he would kill her in a heartbeat.