The Serpent in the Garden

Goosebumps rose on my skin when I felt high amounts of dark power radiating off of him, like waves of cold icy water. It pulsed from his body, sharp and heavy with the weight of a stolen magical core, his and someone else's joined together. He didn't need to have his followers with him anymore to do his heavy work now, a choice he had chosen to make, but now he just needed himself