The Crown's Fire

Ezekiel furrowed his brow upon seeing the serious look on his mother’s face, but then he quickly followed his mother and father on their way inside their private study. He was eager to find out what it was that his mother wanted to talk to him about.

"The mark. I now remembered it," his mother immediately said as soon as they were inside. At that instant, he already understood what his mother meant. It was about the mark on Tarah’s back that he had sent to her in their missives.

"It’s a mark that will appear on persons under the Tophet Bloodchain spell," Queen Dana informed, followed by a sigh.

Tilting his head slightly to the side, Ezekiel asked, "What is that spell, Mother?"

So that meant Tarah was under a spell, and it was something she couldn’t disclose to him. He still remembered how she firmly told him that she couldn’t tell him and would not disclose anything about that mark they found on her back.

"Damn that bastard," his mother suddenly hissed as she weakly sat on a chair. She closed her eyes while her face contorted in annoyance. Ezekiel and his father exchanged meaningful glances because his mother would usually curse only one person like that, and it would be none other than Master Kasper.

"What is it this time?" his father queried.

Taking a deep breath and then exhaling first, Queen Dana began to explain, "Well, I have been keeping journals since the moment I found out that I’m losing all my memories about my previous life as an angel, so I made sure I wrote all important spells and details in them. I plan to hand them all over to Wizard Lurio so he can use them in his teachings to our future mages, but..."

"But?" his father pondered, while Ezekiel simply listened intently.