Location: Thornhaven Village, Mid Realm
Date/Time: 5 Ashwhisper, 9938 AZI
Voresh felt them before he saw them—five familiar presences emerging from the pre-dawn darkness, moving with the silent precision of demons who had spent millennia learning to hunt.
He hadn't slept. Hadn't even tried. The entire night had been spent positioned beneath Lyria's window, watching the darkness for threats that never came, listening to the soft rhythm of her breathing through the thin walls. His body didn't need sleep—hadn't needed it in millennia—but his soul had needed something else entirely.
To be near her. Simply that.
The quintet materialized from the shadows of the tree line, and Voresh moved to meet them at the edge of the village. Five warriors, hand-selected by the king himself. Five of his bloodkin—demons he had trained, fought beside, bled with across centuries of service.
