Recent content by Avalyn

'It’s how they control us.'.. The words slid under her skin like ice. Avalyn’s blood ran cold, terror blooming in her chest. Control. She had so little of it left already, over her body, her temper, the beast constantly clawing at the inside of her bones.. And now she learned even that had been...

Avalyn didn’t dare lift her head. Every breath felt like it scraped along her ribs, and the searing pain in her spine pulsed hot enough to make her vision swim. She curled tighter, dragging her burned wrists to her chest and curled in on herself like a dying spider. Her mind reeled, trying to...

They had surrounded her before she even realised they were hunting. When the five uniformed men stepped out, she assumed they were nothing more than another group of opportunistic bastards looking to corner a lone woman on an empty road. She spat venom at them as they closed in, chin lifted in...