Impossible! What I saw in the throne room… It can’t be. Not after all these years. Yet there is no denying it. Ash’s bound phantom could break free any moment. I must act fast. But how? For a brief instant I’m tempted, like a moth to flame, to let it rise, to watch it burn the enemy to dust. But I know the destruction this anathema is capable of. It is why I bound it in the first place. Some phantoms are too raw, too insatiable in their need for bloodshed. I cannot risk Ash destroying as many innocents as enemies.
