Sakura shot him a withering look. "It was toxic from the start," she admitted. "We were too young, too angry at the world. We pushed each other to take bigger risks, to be more ruthless. And for a while, it worked. We became the terror of Lumina's underworld."
She paused, her expression darkening. "But then we caught the empire's attention."
Zafron leaned forward, intrigued. "I'm guessing that's where things went south?"
Sakura nodded. "One day, we bit off more than we could chew. We tried to rob an imperial convoy. That's when we met him. Officer Steele."
"Officer Steele?" Zafron echoed, the name unfamiliar to him.
Sakura's eyes widened in surprise. "You don't know about Steele? He's infamous! The empire's most ruthless enforcer. He's the reason we ended up down here in the Undercity."
