"Who I really am is immaterial," sneered Chu Xun. He beheld the Winged smugly and declared loudly, "Just so you remember, we humans are the true rulers of Earth."

The face of the elderly Winged could not have been any more sour. His live broadcast proclamation earlier was a wound that he would never recover from and Chu Xun's mention of it could just as easily make him go insane.

Being a Winged who valued pride and pedigree above all else, he had never once suffered ...