The Shadow Knight
"Continue toward the capital if I don't return by nightfall. Tell Lord Blackmoor's forces what happened."
Without waiting for response, he walked across the impossible stillness, moving toward the cathedral's highest spire. Each step should have created ripples, disturbances in perfect reflection, yet the surface remained unchanged. Not frozen, for it yielded slightly beneath his weight, but existing outside normal physical properties.
The tallest spire contained an opening just above waterline, once a window but now serving as makeshift entrance. The Shadow Knight passed through this portal into the cathedral's upper reaches, finding himself in what had been a bell tower. Stairs descended i