The Devil's Broken Doll
The lava light had licked up the walls behind them, red and hungry, turning their faces into masks carved from ember and restraint.
From his youngest son.
Nine hundred years ago, he had sent his youngest son, Caelum, into the palace, not as a sacrifice, but as an extension of will. He remembered the moment with an unwelcome clarity: the smell of scorched stone at the Nether’s edge, the way Caelum’s shoulders had stayed level even as the dark yawned behind him, the way a boy’s breath had sounded too steady because he’d learned early that trembling invited predators. His eldest son, Dravenor, had always been the blade at his right hand, bold and unyielding, the kind of fire that flared with co
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