#chapter quote prologue

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472 AU, Willhaven, Braevick:

With the exception of one house, the village was desiccated overnight by a single venin estimated to be a Sage. The only adult amongst the three survivors described her as, “Astonishingly ageless. Hair as black as the day we married, but in place of the age lines I’d expected were bulging scarlet veins branching outward from her red-ringed eyes.”

— The Resurgence of Evil, a timeline, by Pierson Haliwell