Chapter 27: Akton
If Spence hadn’t been there, Akton would have laid into Talfryn. Whatever he was thinking, it was s**t. Attack a centaur shifter? Akton would have suggested finding a weak point in the blockade and going over when the centaur was resting. Not outright attacking. Talfryn had to have a death wish—the village seemed to be fine as long as it kept its distance.
“What are you, then?” asked Spence as he led through the trees, hand on a knife. Akton had seen him pull it when Talfryn showed off his flame magic and he hadn’t put it back since.
As though that could protect him. If Akton had learned anything from training with Talfryn, it was that shifter magic was blazingly fast and not readily predictable. Which was exactly why he was concerned about the centaur. If she’d been t
