Over the next few weeks after Briana and his father went back home to Cambria, Seth felt lost. He worried that she wouldn't be safe with Dracon still alive and with Virtra on the loose, but with the injuries that Seth had inflicted upon Dracon, he wasn't going to be advancing on her any time soon.

As he waited for his senior year of high school to begin, he busied himself with Karate and Ju Jitsu, fencing classes, and working out in the gym. If he planned to move permanently ...