Royal Bastard's Bloodstained Regression - Chapter 41: Baptized in Bloodless Waters I

... cold, weightless — then crushing. Daemon's lungs squeezed tight as the river swallowed him whole, dragging him into its freezing, endless embrace.

Caldrin's hooves kicked and thrashed beside him, the stallion fighting for its life as the current pulled them deeper.

The shock of it didn't scare him. It wasn't fear that bloomed in his chest, but something else.

Relief.

The ogres' roars above were long gone, replaced by the silence of deep water. For a moment, all t ...