Zalvek backed away, his mind refusing to process what he was seeing.
How long had she been like this? Months? Years?
His eyes drifted to the window, to the outside world his queen had been observing in her final moments. What had she seen? How had she managed to leave the stasis chamber? And most importantly, who had...
A voice from behind startled him.
"So they arrived sooner than expected..."
A soft sound made Zalvek turn abruptly.
The shock paralyzed him.
Where he expected to find another artromus, he encountered something his mind refused to process. A female figure, almost completely human, stood in the shadows.
Her long hair floated softly as if suspended in water, framing a face that showed only the subtlest artromus features, much less pronounced even than those he had seen on the transformed human during battle.
