'We truly do!' The house lords unanimously asserted, their tense expressions visibly easing.
'Perhaps the clan lord was finally seeing reason?' They no doubt thought.
'Heh'
Then suddenly, the warmth and calm with which Rea had spoken evaporated into the Void.
Her pupils — already as black as the darkest night— adopted a glow of frightening madness and bloodlust.
She replied to the lords in a voice that was eerily calm, and yet it somehow also carried a deathly frost and the reapers promise of death, "Then you call you all die!"
A cold, frightening air of bloodlust and death preceeded her voice— enveloping the entire hall.
The gathered house lords had lived for millenia— growing more powerful with each passing century.
So how then was it, that in this very instant, the terror gripping their souls was so completely overpowering?
Renly's fearful eyes swiveled toward Rea —a silent plea whithin them. But just when his lips opened to give voice to this plea. . .it happend.. .
Even years later after witnessing this sight, I would struggle to describe the exact mechanism of Rea's power.
A crushing torrent of pure physical force?
A dense mass of invisible matter tethered to her will?
With a thunderckap, a wave of broiling power fell down from the skies like a torrent of rain.
'Clang' 'Crasss' 'Don'
The ring of seats was broken —pulverized into fine wooden dust.
Drinking goblets creaked as they deformed into ingots and all the house lords were thrown onto the floor.
'Lady Rhea!!!'
'Our lord!!' The terrified Dhampir screamed.
The houselords felt a forceful suppression so overwhelming powerful that they could barely form a coherent thought.
They clearly were not being visibly attacked by any power, yet the cracking of their skulls and the snapping of their spines —spines more durable than tempered steel— told no lies.
'Its almost like . . . ' My thoughts began.
'The gravity of their immediate surroundings has been multiplied a thousand times over until it far exceeds the limits of what their bodies can bear.' Hera surmissed eloquently.
'As the heir to the clan lords throne, Rea inherited the royal trait: Gyrokinesis.
Her will may extend beyond her physical body in the form of pure, crushing, concussive force.
And she is the first of her line to extend this power to force the of gravity as well.
A supreme Vampire who defies the natural order —that is our Master Rea.'
I continued to stare at the scene unfolding before me in a daze.
'REA!" Renly cried out through gritted teeth — his voice a mixture of sadness and anger, "Even though we may have acted somewhat presumptuously … we did it all for the future of our house. .. we have done nothing deserving of death…."
"Nothing deserving of death?" Rea's voice remained ruthless and overbearing. "Very Well. . . " She laughed coldly
"I would have given you the mercy of an instantaneous demise. But since you seem to be under the impression that you're being wronged...
I will explain to you why you deserve to die while your tendons are slowly rent from your flesh."