“Flanders, the War Beneath. My family was there from the start. The Glydes are the oldest family of arcanists in England, with letters patent from half a dozen monarchs. If there is occult aristocracy, it’s us. And we marched out to war: my father, Uncle Jessamy, Aunt Clothide, my cousin Theresa, her brother Gerald and his wife, my cousins Vernon and Valentine, me. Doing our duty under the orders of a pack of power-hungry generals who believed they could wield our knowledge as weapons. “And we let them use us, Saul. We obeyed orders. I did. I— Christ, I am ashamed to say this, but I was part
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