Chapter 170

"Have you ever, but, relished the tenderness of a mother's love from the heart of another, the care of a father's concern from one that is a brother and the bond of a family from persons that are not your blood?"

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Avenues of the City of Descandville,

The Kingdom of Hyll-Decanta,

Darkling Eventide,

Second Moun-night of the Second month,

Fiftieth Year of the Reign of Adon Vericus IV

Nathan Jehu rode out the gates of the Dandelions' Cottage, bedevilled by the dire vision of Clairvoyance that had plagued his sights. Between blinks, every of his view that gazed at the city strewed about him flashed with mortality in fire and ash and smoke and clouded heavens of dark night.