Some time in the near future…
Phon was rushing around her room in a frenzy. She was muttering to herself while throwing random items at the suitcase on her bed. Some of it was clothes, not all of it suited for travel—hardly a complete and functional outfit among the assortment.
The rest was various odds and ends without much rhyme or reason—some food as if she was going to be surviving in the wild, about six different phone chargers since she kept forgetting she’d already packed one. In an attempt to pack toiletries, there was some shaving cream and the head of a plunger.
“Will I need to torture someone on this trip? Of course I will. But how much torture?” she formed a coherent sentence for the first time in a while. Phon was currently measuring out iron chains from her personal box of useful-but-unsavory items.
Really, she didn’t need to pack anything. But what did someone do when they needed to go somewhere? They packed. This was all to occupy her hands while she worked everything through in her mind. She didn’t plan to be there for long—just long enough to stab someone a few hundred times, and maybe beat someone to their senses. Her accommodations could be worried about later.
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The source of all this turmoil and frantic behavior was a card on her desk—a fancily written invitation. ‘You are cordially invited to the wedding of Drim Drazah & —————’ The partner’s name wasn’t legible since there was a knife sticking through it.
To be continued…
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In Volume 4: Wish
> War is over. Or so they say. With every nation united under a single banner, what further use does it serve when peace is all that remains?
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> Yet every day, the Fiends For Hire work tirelessly to protect that peace they cherish so dearly. But, they're not so callous as to dismiss humanity's achievement. In fact, they have their own celebration in mind—a tournament to eclipse all others. A contest of strength, and all species are welcome. To give something back in honor of humanity's grand accomplishment, the victor will be gifted a single request, one that the Drazahs will do everything in their power to grant.
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> Anything you want, and all you have to do is win. What is your wish?