The Beast Inside (Pt 1)
“Are you gonna fucking undress already?”
Whoops, I zevied. Some people in this fandom are a terrible influence, you know who you are, so this one’s for you. I don’t really know where I’m going with this, it hasn’t even been beta-read, but I wanted to roll in the trash for a bit. So here you go.
“Jaeger, you keep going to the front gate.”
“Sure.”
Zeke cannot bring himself to look back at his fellow warriors as they are guided away. It’s all he can do to put one foot in front of the other, because no matter how carefully this has all been planned, and how deeply he knows this is the right course of action, he is nevertheless betraying people he has known half his life, men and women he grew up with.
The streets grow quiet as he passes through, Tybur’s festival proving to be the big draw it was always meant to be. The address is burned into the back of his mind, passed to him by a letter long since burned to soot and ashes in his fireplace.
It’s not too late, he thinks.