The violet mist clung to the frozen fields like a shroud, sizzling against the frost and turning the soil into toxic slag. Down in the agricultural sector, the screams of civilian shifters echoed through the night air, cut short as the bio-chemical fallout dissolved their breathing filters and suppressed their internal beasts.
"Stay behind me" I called out, my voice ringing with royal authority as Gideon and I leapt from the high ridge, dropping three hundred feet onto the hard-packed snow of the valley floor.
We hit the ground in a dual kinetic shockwave. The impact blew the surrounding purple fog back fifty yards, creating a temporary pocket of clean air.
Without missing a beat, I pressed both palms against the frozen earth. Royal golden wildfire erupted from my hands, racing along th
