Chapter 26: Puck Land 2
Rowen’s eyes were buried in a sea of files sprawled across the table, while a ceiling fan turned lazily above his head.
He was bored.
This world — the Caledron, the resistance cells, the creeds, the revolutions stillborn before they could even scream — all of it bored him to death.
He needed a game.
A game where the pawns fancied themselves kings, where blood would be spilled not out of necessity... but out of faith.
He called it SPIRAL.
A spiral that wound downward into madness, from which no soul could return.
It would not be an organization, it would be a lie, feeding on the naïve hunger for hope.
And in his hunt for the absurd, he found Milo Forgher.
A man with lifeless eyes, a former assassin, exiled to Kovalia in hopes of a new beginning.
Once, he had been a father — to a little girl named Sophia. Gone.