Message received.
Loud and clear, even.
Judging from the reports that reached the MBE only moments after that first gruesome discovery, one would've had to be an absolute idiot not to understand exactly what the wyverns were trying to accomplish.
Kael sat beside Riley as the magical orb hovering above the conference table cycled through one horrifying image after another. Every projection showed the same message carved into different bodies, while the scenes that followed revealed yet another ransacked mountain village that had served as the unfortunate source of those corpses.
Silence gradually settled over the meeting room as more images flickered past, several officers quietly lowering their gazes or turning away altogether as though refusing to let themselves memorize a massacre that would almost certainly return to haunt them in their dreams.
Though Riley had a feeling that wasn't the only reason they suddenly found the walls so fascinating.
