645 FIVE YEARS AGO (7)

[ARGH!]

Nikolai clutched his head with his hands after Nichole forcefully made him watch snippets of Gavin Quinzel's past memories.

His twin sister had just grabbed him by the head earlier and forced him to watch the fragments that she shared with him without his permission. But that was the strange thing between twins.

[We can force a link to open between our minds.]

The one that stood out the most was the moment when a White Lion Knight begged Gavin Quinzel to spare him because he had a pregnant wife. But Gavin Quinzel still killed the knight who was also one of his people.

Nikolai thought it was cruel…

… until the corpse of the fallen knight turned into a smoke shaped like a beast. Then it attacked Gavin Quinzel.

Several similar instances happened to Gavin Quinzel.

"Skinwalkers," Nikolai said after his headache was gone. "Monsters who steal the form of the people they eat. That Helstor controls the Skinwalkers?"