Nighttime Encounters

“I’d say it’s audacious.”

Kaiden looked down at Trinity trapped beneath his arms and gasped for breath.

Unlike the bold demeanor she had displayed in her counterattack, Trinity’s body was small and delicate enough to fit snugly in his embrace.

The moment he met her dark eyes, wide with surprise, Kaiden tightened his arms involuntarily.

Thick sinews bulged in his arms as he struggled to keep himself from collapsing onto her.

“I’d say it’s remarkable.”

His opposite hand, not touching the ground, cradled Trinity’s head. The palm held her soft hair, while the back of the hand was in contact with the harsh wintry chill of the ground.

Trinity shuddered as she squeezed his hand, the sensation unfamiliar but not unwelcome.

Kaiden’s hand trembled with hers.

“Perhaps, it might be both.”

Kaiden Calskronin is a member of the Magic Knights Order and has spent three years patrolling the borderlands before enrolling in the magic academy. He possesses unique magical attributes that no one else can duplicate. While chasing after the monstrous Trinity, he is reunited with Rosiana when he is forced to enroll in the Kantaean Academy of Magic.

Rosiana Delconda is a wind mage who can see spirits. Along with Luperne, the guardian spirit of the Escalona Empire, she battles evil spirits in the guise of the Rogue Trinity, often getting into trouble with Kaiden, who tries to capture her.