Navos looked on with sadness.
Several months ago, he had seen at last the final defeat of his forces. Pushed back into the valley surrounding his keep, there was nothing more that could be done. All his experiments had failed him and it was only a matter of time until the noose closed around him.
On that day she had come to him with a plan. Sweet Alleya, his only child. It had broken his heart to hear her offer. She knew Maetor would plan to make her his Queen, so she would open herself to demonic possession in exchange for her demon killing him. He refused to consider it but she had spent many hours convincing him that it was their only hope and at last he had relented.
It brought him no joy to see their plan work.
The chains binding her to the stone snapped. Black pools of infinite d
