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Chapter 31: Chapter Thirty One

The cremation grounds were desolate, empty at the late hour. Only, if one looked hard enough, they would find a group of dark-cloaked individuals surrounding a casket.

Their figures all but blended into the dark environment, becoming one with their surroundings. A large fire pit, currently in use, spurted a diminished, smoky fire. An attendant near the pit fanned the embers, intending to create more smolder.

As a result of their careful ministrations, smoke blossomed and bloomed, sliding over the tall grass with seductive slowness and cloaking everything in a thick, foggy haze.

A woman with a high, arching neck observed the others as they chanted beneath their breath. Her orange gaze—eyes of very high Igni nobility—then landed on the figure in the coffin.

“Deliver this to Calder?”

“I am more than certain he—along with Prince Ezra—will be ecstatic over receiving it,” the man replied.

She considered the prone figure inside the casket before turning to her male companion. The man was of
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