Blood and Rain
But standing a few paces ahead of them, acting as their final, desperate shield, was Cynthia.
She did not wear the true silver robes of an Elder; instead, her garments were a fractured patchwork of emerald silks, her ancient, claw-like fingers wrapped tightly around a slender glass scepter that hummed with a volatile, sickening gold energy—the concentrated life-force of a thousand stolen trees. Cynthia was a creature consumed by a desperate, pathetic ambition. She was not an Elder, but a powerful, rogue witch who had sold her soul to their cause. The high lords had promised her a permanent seat among them, promised her a drop of their true, hoarded immortality, if only she could use her stol
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