Radiance (Wraith Kings Book 1)(77)

They fell silent for a moment, unfurling and creeping away from the grotesque jumble of bones and bloody flesh that had once been a queen renowned for her beauty and feared for her power. The shapes whispered among themselves, adding sibilant voices to the voice of the dead man with no heart who still incanted the words of a poisoned language.

The crack in the wall widened, spilling more of the demonic phantasms into the chamber. They eddied around the dead Kai, undulated across the floor and crawled around the door, seeping through the cracks between wall and frame.

The dead Kai spoke on, even when the first screams of the living resonated through the stones.



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