Splitting Dawn by Katherine D. Graham

Author:Katherine D. Graham
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Katherine D. Graham
Published: 2023-03-14T00:00:00+00:00

Interlude: Draco

A high-pitched hiss, like water rattling the top of the kettle, alerted Draco to the arrival of his arch nemesis. The candles in his room flickered, then blew out, but that mattered little to the Demon King. They were more for ambiance, anyway.

A pillar of dark smoke materialized in front the Draco’s desk, but the Demon King refused to look up.

“It’s been a long time, brother,” Draco said, the familial title dripping with sickly-sweet sarcasm.

The Devil winced at the title he loathed.

“Your little game is at an end yet again, Draco. Checkmate.”

Draco scratched away at the letter he’d been painstakingly refreshing his Human handwriting to pen for the past hour.

“Is it?”

“Maeve won’t let your Hybrid stay within the safety of their walls, and you know it,” Lucef said, crossing his arms. “They’ll send her back to those Humans you hate so much, to scrounge up some piddling attempt at resistance.”

“So check-mate it is, then,” Draco said with a grin, never pausing in his writing.

His lack of attention poked at Lucef even more, which only fed the trolling nature of the Demon King.

“As there was no wager on this match,” Draco said, “is this just a courtesy visit? Or another one of your gloating sessions. The last one, if memory serves, did not go as well as you had planned.”

Lucef moved faster than lightning, grasping Draco by the throat and smashing him up into the ceiling. Draco’s dip pen splattered deep red ink onto Lucef’s face and jacket, and the Devil dropped him with an outraged cry.

“Whatever are you doing?!” Lucef cursed.

Draco straightened his jacket, then held up a thin, brown-leather book. “Journaling, dear brother. A Vampire-Elf pastime, of course, but one I do so enjoy.”

Lucef roared with laughter then, and Draco’s smile wavered. His half-brother’s lack of respect for anything creative had led to many hours of torture in the Demon King’s youth. Now, though, his journals saved tactics for what few victories he’d had against the Devil. Over time, with no records of his own, Lucef would fall for a trick or two.

Just as he was falling for one with his ludicrous triangular offensive.

The triangular approach had worked countless times in Lucef’s favor, that was true. Draco himself had created it for the Devil, back when he served as the captain of Lucef’s guard. There was one key assumption, though, that would prove to be Lucef’s weakness.

To work, all of the enemy’s troops needed be remain besieged within their walls. Draco’s men saturated the inside of the triangle, as well as the outside. Hardly any remained within his walls.

At the right moment, both lines would converge on Lucef’s troops and crush them into oblivion. And Lucef, the man too conceited to not claim a prize like a True Hybrid for himself, would be left defenseless.

“Very well, on with your scribbling. Scribble away while I claim another trophy from another failure,” Lucef mocked.

With an overexaggerated bow, the Devil vanished into a cloud of smoke and was gone as quickly as he’d arrived.

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