Linked by Blood and Bone
Zeyric asked, pushing himself up from the bench, his color slowly returning as the draught took effect.
"Down in the lower archives, behind the old gambling dens," Kaelin said, pointing a gnarled finger toward the back door of her cellar. "His name is Jethro. Tell him I sent you, and pay him whatever he asks—even if you have to pawn every piece of aristocratic metal you're carrying, Thalen."
Thalen reached instinctively into his coat, his fingers brushing against his family's silver signet ring—the last tangible link to the lineage he had spent his entire life trying to live up to. A heavy, complicated silence filled the room as he stared down at the metal.