40EpilogueThe Advocate left a trail of bloody footprints behind her as she made her way through the long maze of hallways lit only by fiery torches. She’d been here so many times, she knew her way instinctively.
She breathed heavily, blood still flowing from her in a shiny sticky stream down her chest and the front of her purple dress. It collected at the hem and dripped onto the floor revealing its deep red hue in the footprints she left on the creamy marble slabs. Billy had missed her heart by only a fraction of an inch. She knew it was luck that had kept her alive. Nothing more.
Finally, she reached the meeting hall, a large high cavern that led to a lower intimate space at one end where a huge and perpetual fire burned. The rough-hewn walls had been cut out of dark jagged rock thousa
