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Then he took her hand.

Sera sheathed her swords. “Then we die in the Vault tomorrow. And you die in this ruin the day after. But if you say yes…” She extended her hand, still bleeding from a vine scratch. “You walk with three beautiful explorers into the dark. And maybe—just maybe—you walk out free.”

Sera lowered her blades. “You… tamed them?”

“And if I say no?”

Kaelen laughed—a dry, ugly sound. “You want the outlawed tamer to help you. For what? Coin? I’m dead either way.”

Kaelen should have walked away. Outlawed. Hunted. The last thing he needed was to reveal his taming. But Vesper uncoiled from his wrist and grew to the size of a hound, scales shimmering violet.

The wind over the Skyfall Ruins tasted like rust and ozone. Kaelen’s fingers traced the scar on his left palm—a crooked “T” burned into the flesh. Tamer . A death sentence in the Empire. adventure of the outlawed tamer with beautiful explorers raw

“He’s moving.”

He stopped.

He stepped into the open. The women saw him—Sera’s eyes widened, then narrowed. A strange man, scarred, wearing a tattered duster and a mask of bone over his lower face. Then he took her hand

But Lira was already staring at his palm. “That brand. You’re Kaelen the Viper. You tamed a Void Serpent.”

“No,” Kaelen said.

Silence.

“Three explorers,” Kaelen muttered. “And no tamer. Stupid.”