River Road (2)

The pristine flower, daughter of the southern clan head—is dead.

Those words repeated itself in his head a number of times more as he stared at the book. Keeva who had been reading along had also paused.

"So that was their method, killing a clan heir…"

It was a very effective technique indeed but there were a lot of problems associated with that.

They went on to read the next letter.

The pristine flower is dead and the camp is in disarray. I have dedicated myself to finding the cause of her death, this is the only way the treaty may be restored…

There were no long write ups in the entire book. The whole book seemed to be an accumulation of letters Downwell had sent back to the phantom continent during the time of the treaty. They had been re-written and used to form what they were currently reading.