4th day of Omnale, 1283   Almost a year after the execution of Lady Larissa, the first sign of her curse shows itself. The situation was like the one that she had used in the Three-Year-War—a poison harmless to fishes but harmful to humans. I am sent by the Magisterium to look over the situation in that village. All of …

Ariadne could no longer remember how many days had passed since she began walking on her own two feet, with her elbows bound together by a cord connected to a horse ahead of her; or how many of her teeth had fallen from her gums after the endless beating she received. Or how many men had entered her during the …