Page 30 of What Whispers in the Dark (Promises of the Marked)

F inding the Mystics in Alynthia was supposed to be seamless—Garrik had done it a thousand times. Leave the legion on the outskirts, dawn inside, and convince them to join the treason marching through Elysian to overthrow the usurper High King, Magnelis.

Only this time, it wasn’t so simple.

It was painful .

A pain that he would inflict on every damned thing in his path.

This bonus chapter proceeds Chapter Fifty and the events that occurred moments after Alora burned Garrik during her panic-induced anxiety attack in the tavern fight. Garrik left shortly after she did and dawned into the mountains where the Savage Prince encounters Ravens.

There are trigger warnings for this chapter.