Chapter 15: Chapter 15: Cold Feet

Anurak

“Tell me, what do you see?” Muwang demanded surprisingly calm for his resolute demeanor.

“Oh, just black. I haven’t opened my eyes since you came to me,” I conceded.

“YOU HAVEN’T BEEN WATCHING WHAT’S GOING ON!” Muwang cried in disbelief. “You’re going to get everyone killed!”

“I thought that was your job once I shifted! You’re telling me that’s not how this works?!” I confessed amateurishly.

“Are you serious?! I can only help as long as you’re sensible to lead me,” he explained frantically. “We’re nothing if we don’t work as a team!”

The sight of Chavoret massacring my parents with a Sandalwood cudgel replayed in my frenetic mind. As I opened my eyes, he was now only a claw’s-length away from me, however the revenge I yearned for my whole adult life was less appealing in front of my Luna, my best friend, and an innocent child. After all this bloodshed, was my fate really to become a murderer?