The cave grew still and quiet for a moment before the spectre began chanting again.
“Free us! Free the ancestors. Free us, silverblood!”
“Why should I free you?” Val asked, not sure why she was engaging with the delusions she was hearing.
There was quiet once more, as if the voice deliberated.
“The silver speaks. Answers the call! Of the line of Azrael she is… Hope! Not of the tainted and twisted!”
As they spoke, the broken dialect became more clear. It was almost sing song as the voices drifted on a fantom breeze in the cave where no wind should be.
“The Princes. They come. If united they stand, all will fall. Gates be opened, powers unleashed. Only the silver-eyed one stands opposed.”
“Princes?” Valkyrie racked her mind to remember what she knew of the scath hierarchy. Both Desmond and Lilith had mentioned them. It was from them that the other scath spawn. Lilith had
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