Chapter 3 · free to read
He would not read it aloud. Which told me the words inside were true.
So I took it myself. His grip was old, and my hunger had always been faster than his kind.
I read it once. Then again, to be sure the words meant what they meant.
It was not the elder's order alone. Ten seals ran down the page like drops of blood.
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