“Two skulls, facing each other upon an ornate shield. “‘Great Redeemer,’ I whispered. ‘What does it say?’ “‘Last, and verily, most contemptible of all Courts of the Blood,’ Chloe read. ‘A broken line of sorcerers and cannibals, damned even among the damned. Spit their name from thy tongue as thou wouldst the blood of pigs, and guard thine own blood lest they wrest it from thy veins.’ “Astrid pointed to a name scribed beneath the skulls. “‘Esani,’ she said. ‘The Faithless.’
