Aerik awakes with a start, and finds himself in a upholstered room with his bodyguard, Sarah. As he wakes, wondering where he is, he finds himself recollecting the events of the last few months, a flight through mountains, escaping from a citadel in a theocratic nation named Arnek. He, a demonkin, was intended to be sacrificed to rip the devil from his soul to sanctify an Avatar-Knight. Cheated of their prize, he recalls, agents of the Theocracy follow him, and as he escapes with Sarah, he...
