I looked down.
Dae-hyun had made sure to put my chair close enough to the cage wall that I could see into the pit that surrounded us. It was lined with huge metal spikes several feet long. Spikes that would make Dracula drool. This motherfucker had made a fucking tiger pit big enough to kill a herd of elephants. But instead of animals, my husbands, Star, his guards, and several hunters were impaled on the spikes. The only positive was that there were no extinguishers. The wounds, no matter how terrible, weren't fatal for any of them. As long as the spikes had missed their hearts. I wasn't sure if an immortal could survive a decimated heart. But their hearts must have been fine since they were all squirming on their spikes like pinned butterflies. Non-fatal or not, that had to be painful. Really fucking painful.
And debilitating.
Whistling to himself, Dae-hyun picked up a beautiful ax, its blade decorated with delicate engravings, and went to the cage door. He unlocked it, pushed it open, then stepped off the edge to float down to the cavern floor.
“He's coming!” I shouted and struggled more violently against the chains.
Dae-hyun went to the nearest person—one of the hunters from Seoul. Wounded so badly, none of them would be able to focus enough to use magic and they'd be too weak to pull themselves off the spikes, especially with some of them impaled on multiple spikes.
The hunter knew what was coming. He leveled a hard look at Dae-hyun and said something in Korean.
“Do you really think I believe in death curses?” Dae-hyun sneered at the hunter. Then looked up at me and winked.
“No!” I screamed.
The ax came down.
The other hunters shouted at him in Korean. Sounded like threats. Not a good idea. He turned his attention to them.
“Anticipation is so delicious,” Dae-hyun drawled. “I'll let you anticipate me killing those two men who are bound to you.” He lifted his ax over another hunter. “They have to die, but these people don't. How about we make a trade?”
“What do you want?” I screeched at him.
“Information. We'll start with your name and title. Tell me who you are.”
“My name is Seren Sloane.”
He cocked his head at me. “Sarin? As in the deadly gas?”
I snorted. “No, as in the Welsh word for star. But I like that. I think it suits me.”
“And what are you? Their leader?”
“I'm an extinguisher.”
“Just an extinguisher? I think not.” His ax rose again.
“I'm also the Princess of Twilight.”
“Now, we're getting somewhere.” Dae-hyun moved to the next hunter.
It was Hunter Mi-cha.
“Whatareyou, Princess Seren?” Dae-hyun asked sweetly. “Fairy? Angel? Demon?”
“Don't tell him anything,” Hunter Mi-cha gurgled around a mouthful of blood.
“Don't you just love a hero?” Dae-hyun squealed. “Oh, pardon me. I mean aheroine.”
“I'm part human and part fairy,” I said to him.
“Interesting.” Dae-hyun moved on to the next hunter.
Another of the Seoul hunters.
He lifted his ax. “What are your abilities?”
