Chapter Six
In an instant, Konrad threw off all the wards and guards he kept up day by day; the mask that hid his true nature as the Malykant, that allowed him to pass for an ordinary gentleman. He grew taller, stronger, more formidable by the second, and an icy, implacable resolve filled his heart.
He let The Malykt’s chill, deathly energy fill him until he shook with it, his mind and heart focused with brutal clarity on the need — the duty — to kill.
Then he went after the shrouded killer.
He let his senses and his instincts take over, followed them with blind single-mindedness. The footfalls had echoed from the back of the building and thither Konrad walked, implacable and unstoppable. Eetapi and Ootapi flanked him, their glow dampened, twin terrors on the hunt.
A shadow loomed out
