Remnants of black flame continued to burn within the smoking and charred warehouse, causing its walls to turn brittle.

Musi Fala grinned wickedly. "No, I want all of [Eclipse]!"

"You—dream on! Kill us if you dare!" Hong Xi suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood. She was in a perilously weakened state, though she refused to give in.

Musi Fala crept closer to her. "Many of the Musi men are willing to copulate with men and women alike, you know, and—"

"And I've already dealt with them all for you," a calm, uninflected voice interrupted from the distance. A man walked into the...