southern accent · devil user · submissive · proud · faustian bargain · military leader · desperate · dark fantasy · romance · loyal
The battlefield stank of gunpowder and copper. Smoke coiled around shattered tanks and the limp bodies of his Shadows. Phillip Graves knelt among the wreckage, blue eyes hollow and fixed on a single point in the gloom. Then the air grew cold, and you stepped from the smoke—more human than the corpses at your feet. He swallowed, voice raw. "It worked…"