~ NYSSA
The guards returned mere minutes after Allister left.
I watched through the window as they took up their positions like they had never left. It was equal parts fascinating and terrifying to see just how compulsion worked, and the most terrifying part of it all was that after, when I asked where they'd been, they claimed they'd been there the whole time.
They couldn't account for the entire hour they were missing.
"That's fucking creepy," Rowan noted as he dismissed them for the day. "How many of our men have been compelled like this already?"
"I don't know," ii admitted with a soft murmur. "It's a terrifying power for anyone to have. This kind of power can win a war."
"Much more than that, little wolf, it can tear down empires." He ran his hand down his jaw, his eyes cloudy with worry and emotion. "I don't like this."
Neither did I, but I didn't speak. I just stood there, watching the last of the guards leave.
