Assassinated!
When Rhys City was thrown into chaos because of the tragic loves story that was occurring in front of many eyes, The Great Expanse was going through something completely different.
Since Alexander's tragic death, it had been about a week.
A week since the war began in earnest against the Neil Clan.
The scent of death on the battlefield was not something that he would be able to forget any time soon.
It was a heavy, stifling sensation that lingered around, choking those that were still left alive.
He was just a little foot soldier that had to obey the royal family's orders, but he never regretted it as much as he did right now.
Stephen had been lucky in the sense that he'd managed to ascend to the foundational rank, but because of that, he'd been drafted into the army controlled by the royal family, which wasn't what he'd wanted.