The Burning Ball and the Broken Baron

The chaos at Palais Lobkowitz reached a fever pitch in Round 3. A bronze-scaled Wächter rose from the headless corpse of Mikhail on the dance floor and turned its attention on Vladimir, raking its claws across his chest and shoulder in a spray of blood that splattered across Freddy’s face. Freddy dragged at the wounded officer, but Vladimir’s legs gave out and he crashed to the parquet. A second Wächter came barrelling out of a side corridor and bounced off the walls before giving chase. Adler…