Kyva simply acted.
And all hell broke loose.
Despite the distance they had managed to cover, the monster had heard them.
Its claws swiped through the air with malevolent intent, and several shards of ice came hurtling toward them. The three immediately scattered, diving for cover behind separate tree trunks.
Finn and Vera pressed their backs against the rough bark, their eyes landing on a jagged shard of ice embedded in the earth not far from where they hid. Power pulsed from it, cold, unnatural and wrong.
The mere fact that the creature could conjure ice in a jungle where there is no ice sent a chill through their veins.
Before joining the Sacred Order, there was one thing the siblings had been taught well: every monster in the beastly realm also possessed a rank of its own.
These were the corrupted beasts.
