He was going to break some chains!
He said so simply before his body began to pulse with power right away.
Rose's expression shifted, something unreadable flickering behind her emerald eyes as she processed what he was saying.
"The chains binding advancement?" she asked.
"Mmm," Achilles confirmed.
His consciousness expanded outward, and Rose felt the shift in the ambient authority around them.
It was subtle at first…like the distant rumble of an approaching storm heard from miles away, more pressure than sound. But as his perception deepened, as he turned the full weight of his elevated existence toward examining the fundamental structure of her being, the sensation intensified into something that made her genetic flames flicker with involuntary response.
And there, written into the very fabric of her being like equations carved into bedrock, were the chains.
