Like most of the Mages in King Detry’s Guild, I’d come to be here because Warlord, his Commanding Mage, had spotted me and seen me for what I was.For the magic I was capable of.King Detry, as was his practice, had slaughtered my family and brought me back to the castle to serve under Warlord and, more importantly, his Second in Command who trained us.Hawk.Damn, dreadful, cocky, despicable Hawk. I hated everything about the man.But it just so happened he was the best mage in the country, other than Warlord who had some strange accentuated power no one could explain.I’d heard whisperings he was less than human though.He could be a demon.Hawk certainly acted like a demonic minion. I made it a point to always go out of my way to avoid the striking man.The other mage’s fawned over him.But I just want him to go the hell away.But Hawk was Hawk. And he did whatever the bloody hell
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