Marked From Birth
Some were as large as cathedrals, their iron ribs picked clean by time and the Glass-Walkers.
"This is where the First King’s enemies came to die," Audrey said, stepping down from the city’s boarding ramp. She was accompanied by Lucas and a small guard of Smoke-Walkers.
From the shadows of a rusted hull, the leader of the Glass-Walkers emerged. He was a man who seemed more stone than flesh, his skin grey and translucent, his limbs elongated by generations of climbing in the dark. He carried a staff tipped with a pulsing, violet crystal—the same "Void-Energy" that Audrey carried in her scars.