Chapter 1: several years earlier
It was going to be a beautiful day, the sun was passing through the grey wet clouds to leave pools of light to dot the landscape. It may have been warm in the sunlight,
however in the shadows of the building a chill crept into the skin of the woman leaning there. In any other city the sunlit streets would have beckoned but this was Hayll, a
dangerous tainted city. She wound not have come under normal circumstances, but nothing had been 'normal' since the night at Cassandra's Alter. She had received a hasty
psychic message from Daemon, it had been a weak connection and the words had been garbled, believing that he had gone to ground in Hayll she had come. The city was
quiet, so if he had come to kill Dorothea SaDiablo it had not happened yet. So she waited and listened hoping to sense him. Last night a signal had been left at one of their
hiding places, so she waited and waited.
Surreal… On a spear-distaff thread. Her brow furrowed in concern; oh it was so weak.
She reached out to him with her mind, her body taut with tension and a little bit of fear. Daemon…Daemon? Where are you?