A Secretary Affair
Maps covered tables, marked with places he had never heard of, each one showing the old boundaries of the lands once protected by his ancestors.
There were vials filled with glowing liquids, instruments made of silver and bone, and tapestries hanging on the walls that told the story of the curse woven in golden and black thread—of the twins, of Kael and Elias, of the book, and of the endless cycle of sacrifice that had spanned centuries.