Chapter 72- Dark and Dawn

Chapter 72-Dark and Dawn

We are all in the gutter,

but some of us are looking

at the stars.

~Oscar Wilde

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The midnight sky was cloaked in shadows veiled by a thick curtain of mist that curled along the hilltops like smoke from a forgotten fire. Beneath the towering walls of Dragsholm Castle, two cloaked figures slipped through a gap in the servant’s passage. Their hoods were drawn low, obscuring their faces, the coarse wool damp from dew.

Their breaths came shallow as they ducked beneath the looming silhouette of an enormous rock — a natural formation, wide as a cottage and jagged as a forgotten vestige of the ancient gods. From behind its massive cover, they watched the flicker of stick torches as the night patrol passed by.