Ch. I
When I saw her I recognized her immediately though my presence didn't even seem to register in her mind. She was not paying attention. Her Mind was focused in-wards as it had so often been during those last days. She would stare at the ground or a wall, and you could tell she was escaping.
I had heard of a mysterious girl whom the Lord Marshal kept all to himself. She never left his quarters and only a few Necromongers had caught glimpses of her when they'd had an excuse to visit the Lord Marshal at home. They found it all the more strange that she seemed not at all they type of girl he would want. She was extremely shy, passive, silent. Her name, one Necromonger told me, was Li.