“They are enchanted artifacts made to collect and contain souls. Only a few beings know how to forge them. The enchantment can be placed on any sort of item, though lockets are used quite often. The locket I’m wearing in the photograph was lent to me by Knox while I completed a piece of work for him. But your mother’s was very different. It was shrouded with magic I’d never seen before, and she was certain it contained something incredibly powerful, something disastrous.”

