“The choice I offered you was always a false one,” he said. “I’m sorry. The Resurrection Beasts always know where I am, and wherever I am they turn themselves to me and start moving … slowly … but never stopping. And they don’t turn to me alone, though they focus on me most strongly. They hunt whoever has committed the—indelible sin.” You stared at him. He dropped his hands. You said, “Which indelible sin?” “The one you committed when you became a Lyctor,” said the Emperor.
