Bound to the Death King
With trembling, gloved fingers, Vespera flipped the thick parchment over.
Glued to the second page were detailed architectural diagrams drawn in dark red ink, blood ink. They showed the subterranean catacombs deep beneath her childhood home, beneath the rose gardens where she used to play as a little girl. The diagrams depicted an inverted obsidian altar surrounded by nested binding circles, designed for forbidden blood-magic rituals meant to siphon the innocent life forces of Null children to artificially awaken dormant magic cores in adult nobility.
At the bottom of the page was her father’s personal seal, stamped in dark garnet wax, alongside his sworn signature: Lord Anthony Vance, Maste