LittleHauntedCheese
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A brutal ambush leaves bodies strewn across the roadside. In the aftermath, Lady Death moves silently between them as she gathers souls for the afterlife.
In Rattay, a desperate Lord calls her name, but she closes her ears to his cries. It is not his time yet.
He'd been too slow to save him, and now he was too weak to join him. Another failure to call his own, another disappointment. His trembling hands dropped blonde hair into the filth that he'd wrung from his stomach. A sickening tableau of his desperation painted on the floor of his chamber.
Somewhere else, Henry of Skalitz sits under a Linden tree in the sun of a new dawn. "All will be well" he tells himself. He just needs to wait. His Lord will come.