epic-dark-fantasy

You have your orders,_ Mab shouted at the guards. __o the Deeps with her._ The men led me from the great hall, taking me along a series of corridors to the back of the castle, then winding through another long corridor and into a spiraling stairwell that appeared to have no end. We went further and further down until finally it ended so deep in the ground it felt like a grave. My pulse quickened as we reached the bottom. A single dark door lay ahead.

I flinched when his hands lifted, although it was more of a reaction to everything that had been happening to me, not necessarily because he was Death. He stilled. __ou__e sad,_ he said. __et me help you._ __here isn__ anything you can do._ __ can comfort you.