Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four Part Five In the back of the shelter was a well-padded standing rest. I understood what it was for right away. I leaned with my back against it and gave a ready gesture. Preview Open

Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four Sovereign princes and their heirs may have many interests. They may love art or music or architecture. They may endeavor to be Renaissance men, writing poetry and studying ancient arts, such as horsemanship. But their primary responsibility is to defend their domains and their subjects. This has […]

Part One Part Two Part Three The next day was easily as nerve-wracking a wait as the day before. Antoine, Percival, Walpole, and I spoke of various topics as we waited. It was only twelve-and-a-half hours before we felt the same sort of magical pulse as we had yesterday, except that the pulse was much […]

For Part One, go here. Part Two I sat in the front of the coach for the first time as Spence Percival guided it along the streets as if it were confined to the ground, like my steamer. We didn’t go up above the clouds, nor did we have to face the lightning this way. […]

Part One “The way I see it, this breaks down into two parts,” I said. “First, we have the problem of reversing the Sanctification Spells that have gone badly. Second, we need to find who has been spreading these flyers with information about the Sanctification Spell.” We were in the same conference room in Paris […]