The Crescent Heir
The voice was not loud, it didn't need to be, but it carried the crushing weight of a thousand winters — a kind of voice that had spoken over graves and births alike.
Mama Eunice had arrived.
She stood in the doorway like a relic dragged out of a forgotten age. Clad in a heavy cloak of silver-grey wool that seemed to swallow the dim light. Her eyes, usually a milky white bulge, was glowing golden, bright as torches,and swept the room with the calm authority of something that did not need sight to know exactly what was happening.
She was not a woman who walked into rooms. She arrived in them, and her arrival spelt dire urgency.