Marked for Betrayal
Now, back within the walls of Darkhaven, I sat in the long hall with the cloth stretched across the council table, the fire low behind me, and silence pressing in from all sides like fog.
The sigil was shaped like a spiral, but not one that circled outward. It collapsed inward, twisting through layered slashes and half-runes that I didn’t recognize until Chito placed a faded book beside me—a relic from before the wars, from the forgotten records of the broken bloodlines.
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