Chapter 86 The Twins' Ultimatum

• The battlefield was a blur of smoke and blood, steel and shouts. The sounds of war reverberated in my bones, and the weight of everything I had fought for pressed down on my chest, threatening to crush me. But it wasn’t the heat of battle, nor the chaos of the royal army closing in, that left me feeling hollow. It was the sound of the argument I had just overheard.
• Blue and Grey.
• They were standing not far from me, their voices low but sharp, cutting through the cacophony of the war around us. Even in the middle of everything, even as soldiers clashed and people died, I could feel the tension between them, thick and suffocating.