The battle came to a stop around you.

Here you were. Face to face with your father. The entire reason you were in this mess, the entire reason you hated everything.

But you weren’t ready to tear him to pieces like you thought you were. And now you willed your body to move while you both stood there, the battlefield frozen in time.

And you could hear his immortal heart pounding.

“Kid.” He growled, a dangerous warning. But something behind it. Or was that just your darting panic?