Chapter 1
“Don’t let the beast escape!” The command pierced Pembroke’s mind, slurring his thoughts like a river under the spell of Frost.
The barking of charging armored walruses echoed off the walls of ice.
He had to get out of there.
He had to teleport away.
What were the coordinates of the herd’s current camp?
His antlers couldn’t lock on to any.
3 °2928’ N…
…1 °0982’ E?
Crippled by panic, Pembroke’s antlers faltered.
He couldn’t detect anywhere but here. His horns malfunctioning, confused by the deadened signals of his skinned comrades beneath his hooves.
Pembroke stood on a bed of reindeer pelts in a turret of carved ice, deep in the bowels of the Slayer’s new kingdom.
The murderer.
The banished one.
Now returned.
Pembroke couldn’t shake that first moment when it all ch
