"Is this what they actually look like?" Thomas set a book down in front of Sin on the massive wooden table in North Palace's library.
The thin, bespectacled human had grudgingly come to live with them after Raul's troops attacked the small settlement where he'd lived. Thomas was a linguist and historian, and had once been a teacher in one of the human villages. He'd been able to translate large passages of Raul's grimoire they'd stolen, and thanks to him they now knew why Raul had started the war with the elders so long ago, and about the unholy pact Raul had made with the shadow world being called Death.
Although Thomas often tended to treat books better than people, and had frequently driven Rein mad because of his know-it-all attitude, he'd become an invaluable member of Sin's inner
