CHAPTER 117

Aedion had fought until the enemy soldier
before him had slumped to his knees as if
dead.
But the man, a black ring on his finger, was
not dead at all.
Only the demon inside him.
And when soldiers of countless nations
began to cheer, when word spread that a Torre
Cesme healer had defeated Erawan, Aedion
simply turned from the battlements.
He found him by scent alone. Even in
death, the scent lingered, a path that Aedion
followed through the wrecked streets and