Vespera spoke while her lattice held the reinflating glutton pinned against the basin floor, her red eyes never leaving the column's front.
"Son. I will handle the elite. Please take care of the rest."
The stream chat pulsed in his peripheral.
— Thirsty247: SHADOW MOMMY IS DELEGATING!! 🥵
— TouchGrass: momma's boy confirmed on live television lmaooo
— NyxWorshipper: can she adopt me next???
Kaiden's mouth twitched behind the blood mask. 'Mommy's boy charges are never going away at this rate.'
'Not helping, Alice.'
He looked at his mother across thirty meters of toxic haze, her shadow lattice braided through the basin's forward half in a web that held the column's heaviest bodies in place while her cables carved into whatever pushed through. She was asking him to cover the width so she could commit forward without restraint. The Shadow Monarch trusting her son to hold the flanks.
"Got it."
