Blood and Rain
"The Inner Forest Glen is dying. Slowly, quietly, from the center outward. For the last fifty years, the great sentinel trees have been turning to brittle glass, their roots rotting into ash. The Elders told us it was a curse bleeding in from the highland borders—a sickness caused by the wolves and the vampires."
He shook his head, a bitter, self-reproaching smile touching his lips. "But looking at King Navarien now... feeling the sheer, uncorrupted life vibrating in the stone of this fortress... I realize the truth. The sickness isn't coming from the outside. The Elders are draining the life-force of the forest itself to sustain their own immortality and fuel their glass enchantments. They
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