chapter 56
Author: Deenah writes
last update2026-08-06 07:00:12

The man sitting on the cold floor of the cell was not the legendary hero Logan had pictured in his mind for twenty long years.

Logan took a slow step into the dark room, his boots crunching on the dirty straw scattered across the stone floor. He held his Vanguard blade low at his side, his hands shaking slightly as the lantern light flickered across the thin, trembling shadow huddled against the back wall. The legendary warrior of the northern trenches, the man who had fought off royal ba
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