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And with a slow and deliberate wave of his free hand, King Jürgen declared: "It is done. I shall have the force so requested assembled in no more than three nights' time, and for those of my warriors who swear to this mission, you shall for the duration wield authority over them as though it...

Psuchepage. Soul eater. Life devourer. "Oh," she said, more bemused than anything. "You're right. I assumed." The sting of one's intuition being wrong was a rare, if familiar, feeling to Akiza. She'd credit her survival for so long to having a keen sense of danger and opportunity, branches...

All fine points of negotiation made by Afanas—this evidenced by the King's small but visible approval of each. Here the slight curve of smile at the mention of Reikhurst's formal recognition, there the subtle nod at the tangible offer of receiving the banished, the unwanted, from Alliria's...

A raising of brows and a puckering of lips upon hearing the unexpected. "Surprising," said King Jürgen, giving voice to his expression. "Hardly would I have thought it so, but here you are." He thought for a moment and then continued, "Alliria is known as the Center of the World, the great...

King Jürgen listened with great attentiveness. And then he delivered his response: "So they in their desperate hope turn to those whom they would otherwise spurn. Yet it is clear to see why they would so spurn; the common bird seeks no kinship with the hawk, nor does the deer befriend the wolf...

Such a gesture as Afanas offered to the King was foreign to Akiza; most social customs in her long travels on the run throughout Arethil were. But she was nothing if not an improviser, quick on her feet, and in so catching sight of Afanas from the corner of her eye did as he did in her own...

What I do know, though, is that death can have me, when it earns me. There in Akiza's eyes came a red shine, a glimmer of admiration and endearment. What a way to put it! Nearly in direct defiance of his previous statement, here was a sentiment Akiza couldn't help but to enjoy. Afanas despised...

Fae. For the longest time, even for a while into her vampirism, Akiza had thought them to be merely tall tales; for while many races and creatures populated Arethil, the full scope of which likely unknown to any one person, there among the truth lurked stories born of imagination or...

By force if need be. Oh. She might like that. And Akiza might like to watch. But that was a vista on the other side of the bridge, so to speak, as they both still had their audience with King Jürgen before them. The commencement of music preceded Afanas's telling more of his father. Maybe there...

"Yes. I did," came Akiza's reply, now with a smile full-fledged. Like a moth she often courted the flame, even as she knew what awaited should she hover too close. A flaw, her more pragmatic and realist side would conclude. Yet in another way she was happy that this was something she indulged...

"Try him yourself," Akiza whispered back, with a small curve of a smirk. Her eyes met Erzsebet's when they could. "You won't be disappointed." Why not play the game? Afanas seemed to be enjoying himself. If that quiet catching in his throat was anything to go by. Afanas

Oh. So he did live amongst the living. But maybe she was getting ahead of herself; she too had a life before being turned. It might have been this way with Afanas and his father, it might have been that his father provided him with a home and cover after he had been turned. Regardless, it wasn't...

Akiza watched the small interaction between Afanas and the Wargheit and thought nothing of it; a bestial creature, those massive Wargheits, so it seemed hardly out of the ordinary. But little did she know. She did, however, become increasingly aware of her subtle aversion to enclosed spaces the...

The revealed doors in the church gave them passage to what lay beneath. And, even so far as the hallway into which they first entered, the sight surpassed Akiza's expectations. She thought of...well, not a crudely fashioned tunnel in a cave, but something not so far removed from it. Polished...

Funny he would say that. Because in the case of the Reikhurstans, that was exactly what Akiza had come here to prevent. Rising to the challenge they were, but the Vaiz Onder Elissal thought them incapable of besting it. And that would be such a waste. Akiza and Afanas's brief introduction to...