Lady Starfell remained frozen on the couch, her amber eyes locked on the broken, sobbing man at her feet. Her mind clearly struggled to process how quickly the game had turned from her hunting Jack to Jack devouring her alive.
Jack straightened from his crouch, his red eyes never leaving her face. He reached into the air with his right hand, fingers passing through reality itself as if grasping something invisible.
Red lightning crackled around his wrist, and suddenly a rolled parchment materialized in his grip. Pulled directly from his system storage. He made the impossible look mundane to everyone else.
He unrolled the document slowly, letting the thick paper unfurl until it hung between them like a death sentence.
"Do you recognize this?" Jack asked sarcastically, holding the parchment where she could see the elaborate seals and signatures at the bottom. "You should. Your house signed it along with twenty-four others when you swore fealty to House Kaiser at our last soiree."
