Chapter 97 The Scroll Of Sacrifice
- The old castle still stood like a carcass picked clean by time.
- Its halls were silent now, its bones hollow. Mikko hadn’t returned here since the day they left Holden behind—and he wouldn’t have come now if not for the nagging whisper in the back of his mind. The one that wouldn’t shut up about the curse. About Espen.
- About the fact that if she died, so would he.