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Chapter Ten

My eyes are heavy and struggle to stay open despite the foggy glow of ht

The night was long,I’ve ever seen I nor with places and people fro a tiht was entirely different The places my mind took me were filled with darkness, landscapes without sun roas also lurked there, their faces masked and their bodies silhouetted indictated by another Perhaps by our cryptic host in this gloomy palace

He summoned me shortly after Astor fell asleep I was surprised that Astor drifted away so quickly One moment he was full of anxiety and worry,out the Necromancer, and the next he was sound asleep on his bed, one of two in this coht us to the moment we arrived

Shortly after that, a strange whisper echoed from the hallway, so faintly that I barely noticed it the first time But after two more utterances from the soft voice, I sensed that itout toAstor behind to continue dozing away

As I went through corridors and roo directly to h I took co to stay out of my head as he had promised earlier in the day Candles and torches lit rand staircase that led deeper into the palace As I descended, I began feeling as though I was being followed, not by anything living, but the spirits of those occupying this necropolis, this ined thetaken before the executioner

“You didn’t bring your coed from the stair bottom into a round chamber

He stood at its far end, leaning over a tall alche, his stature see than e firstour reunion just hours before I wondered if it wasn’t simply the sht co lesser than he was before He had gone froh still taller than any other I’d seen

A glow rose up fro with a whiff of s his fra his body with a sense of liveliness I never before could have associated with hihoulish semblances of his bones beneath

“You’ve changed,” I replied suspiciously

“Yes,” he ht I’d try so a little less fearsome Maybe it will help you trust me more I can tell you remain unsure”