The pride the duchess had felt seemed to leave her and become absorbed through the king’s eyes, where he picked it apart.

There were hundreds of them, all dressed like silver dragons, all with long, streaming capes that looked like great wings, flapping and twirling as they fought.

When the time comes… I will be the one to have you killed. Whether by my hand or another’s, I will make sure that you do not run forever.

Standing like this and gaping at each other is not at all pleasant.

A dark shape parts the clouds above and passes over eastern kingdoms, soaring unceasingly and stopping for none. It is coming here, Castian Valinor, and it is coming for you.

There are more wicked things on this earth that the Specter King. You only have to know where to look.

In the beginning, there was nothingness — a darkness that stretched out to infinity.

A smile is deceptive, I have found. Some are real… and some are false. Sometimes it is hard to tell the difference.

Nothing is truly real until one is willing to believe in it.