#Back to the present
Hade found himself caught between a rock, a hard place, and another, even harder, terrible place.
Regrettably, even the banal metaphor did not quite capture the severity of just how precarious the situation he had worked his way into really was.
Perhaps, it was the most precarious situation he had ever found himself in.
Perhaps, it would also be the last...
Death really seemed like the only logical conclusion to this perilous, harrowing standoff.
In one corner of the ring stood Grigori Darkwater...
Despite Derek assigning him as their primary target, Hade and Isolde hadn't been able to uncover a lot about the bald man, nothing except the fact that he was a raving lunatic. And what's worse, one with more than enough skills and firepower in his arsenal to back his crazy up.