463b - Like Bits of Scorched Skin

Amitzas stood a moment longer in the sunny room
full of poisonous reptiles and insects before nodding to himself.  "Daughter. 
Come."



He led her to his office, unlocked the bookcase on
his desk and pulled out a blackened silver volume that Inensa recognized.  It was the Mahid Book, the shadow copy of the
Imperial Book that her husband had so carefully carried and read from while
they