Hakai came to a halt looking down at the smoking trenches she had just carved into her own floor with a look of mild annoyance.
"That was quite impressive," Hakai said.
Her voice was perfectly calm, without even a hint of breathlessness in her tone.
She didn't sound like a combatant who had just weathered a relentless flurry of strikes from a millennium-old Vampire Queen.
She sounded like an executive evaluating a slightly flawed spreadsheet, well probably because that was what Hakai was…
She slowly raised her head.
Her brilliant purple eyes locked onto Tej, but the warmth and light that usually resided in them when she looked at Koya were completely gone.
They were flat and devoid of all light.
"My turn," Hakai said quietly.
She reached up with her left hand and took hold of the loosened black tie hanging around her neck.
With a casual effortless tug, she pulled it completely off her collar. She didn't throw it aside… she simply let it drop.
