Prologue
"When do you see farthest? At night, of course, because when everything else is dark enough, you can finally see the beauty of the stars."
When the dust cleared, there was a single, faintly glowing character imprinted on the ground. Daigui froze, shocked, and immediately started chanting shielding incantations when he regained his senses. His voice shook so much that his ward came out uneven. Kael would be quite displeased to see such a sloppy Ward of Wyrndïv. He wanted to cry out, to release all his anger and fear to the world. But for some reason, for some cruel, suffocating reason, he could not find his voice to do so. Suddenly, a boy walked out under the moonlight, and Daigui could see his features clearly. The boy's eyes had some strange cast on them, impossibly dark like bottomless obsidian. When he looked into those eyes, Daigui felt his blood chill to the bone.
"Oh Master," he found himself whispering. "Please…please…"
Then the boy smiled.
And Daigui's screams rang out through the night.