Chapter 51: His Pain - Yildiz

Makbule and I spent our entire shift going over everything we could recall regarding Isolde and Manon and the more we analysed it the more suspicious things started to appear. You have to understand, we’re talking about crimes spanning centuries, but there could be decades between these crimes. Assessing them as each one occurred seemed straightforward, but truth is, nothing is straightforward when magic is in play.

Makbule and I have found it to be strange how someone on the run would repeatedly leave witnesses to so many of her crimes. It’s also strange that in the event that started a chase that has lasted centuries, how was Manon the only one to survive? Given Isolde’s alleged blasé attitude towards life, why not just kill all these people and not have witnesses at all? I even thought back to what we learned the other month about the barrier placed around Longsang. Why would the most powerful makkari on earth ask a lesser makkari to create a barrier that they could easily create