He dragged the white-haired psycho backward into a swirling portal of darkness.
Just before he disappeared, he looked back, his ice-blue eyes locking onto the bushes where Yue Yue was hiding. His gaze wasn't angry; it was a promise. I'll be back for you, little snowdrop.
Yue Yue shivered, her scales crawling. Please don't!
The portal snapped shut. Han Soi's men, Tong Yu and Ke Hong, immediately pursued the fading energy trail, leaving the clearing in an eerie, ringing silence.
Han Soi stood in the middle of the dead forest. He transformed back into his human form in a blur of motion, his clothes tattered and his chest heaving.
"Yue Yue..." he croaked, his voice breaking.
He looked at the black, toxic soil where he had seen her fall, his heart clenching with the terrifying thought that she might have been crushed or poisoned.
