FATASS FATED VENGEANCE
I wanted to run across the floor and wrap my arms around his neck, to bury my face in his dark hair and tell him I would follow him into whatever fire was coming next.
"A noble sentiment," a new voice rasped from the back of the chamber.
The sound was thin, dry, and strange, like dry corn husks rubbing together in a draft.
The lords in the tiers turned their heads.
Stepping out from the shadows near the rear archway came a tall, gaunt man wrapped in a heavy grey cloak. His face was pale, his cheekbones so sharp they looked like stretched parchment over bone. Pinned to his collar was a bronze clasp shaped like a coiled viper, the mark of the House of Corvath, a small, isolated pack from the d