THE ALPHA KING'S MAID
“Accompany?”
“I need to examine the ground where the demon appeared. And you”—he looked at me over his glasses—“might see things I can’t. Signs, inscriptions, traces in the Dark Tongue. If the vampires are opening portals, they leave marks. And you’re the only one who could read them.”
I remained standing in the office after Silas left. Through the window, the setting sun painted the forest orange, and the mansion hummed with the usual activity of guards, workers, and wolves living their normal lives, unaware of what brewed in the shadows.