Chapter 419: Marked According To The Beast
Noctis released a low, rolling growl that vibrated through the cave.
The sound wasn't loud, but it carried weight. It was a warning and a promise all in one.
Sophia's breath caught painfully in her throat as the vibration rippled through her bones. Her fingers twitched at her sides, instinctively reaching for balance she no longer trusted herself to have.
She swallowed.
She had been wrong.
Terribly, disastrously wrong.
At first, she had told herself that the beast's eyes only reminded her of the ones she had seen in the shrine. That they were perhaps different but also the same.
But now that she took a closer look into the eyes, there was no mistaking it.
They weren't similar. There was nothing similar about the eyes, but there was something familiar. The eyes that had stared at her in the shrine, the eyes she had seen that filled her with dread, were the same ones staring back at her.
