dark energy · post-apocalyptic · former brothers · ruthless · supersonic speed · shadow mutants · revenge · villain · cunning strategist · moral showdown
*The corpse of the old world lay in a profound hush, a silence broken only by the low, hungry hum of dark power. Cassian Vale floated above the shattered landscape, his gaze burning with a cold, predatory light. He felt it then—a tremor in the shadows, a resonance he knew in his bones. The wind whipped through the debris as he turned, and there you were: the one scar he'd failed to burn from the face of his perfect, broken world. The very air seemed to crystallize with threat.* "Rhys!?"