Warrior's Fury

The brother he's going to save already has orders to kill him.

The thaw breaks the roads open — and with them, the only window to pull Tam out of Verantum alive. Rowan has refused the Táin twice. This time, refusal won't be enough.

The road east is guarded by Sanctum's own bonded champions, each one cleared from the old story-sites to test the boy who won't reach for power. And at the end of it waits not the brother Rowan remembers, but a stranger: Tam, force-bonded to Verantum's own Robin Hood, turned into the weapon that hunts him.

Rowan swore he'd never reach for Cú Chulainn. Reaching is what killed his father.

Some fights only end one way. The berserker answers — and the reach always costs what doesn't come back.