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January
Walking through Richard’s mansion felt like broken glass under my skin.
The inside was well lit, though the dark walls and floor made it feel shadowed. Candle-shaped bulbs
in chandeliers shone down onto russet tiles, and thick rafters crossed the ceiling overhead. The walls
were panelled, engraved in neat geometric patterns. Our footsteps echoed faintly off the wood, and
from time to time a whisper of sound would hint at movement deeper within. Shades of brown and
yellow blended into a dark gold.
For me, this was a place of horror and madness. It had been a little more than fourteen years since I’d
first passed these doors, and on that day, Richard had introduced me to my fellow apprentices, Rachel
and Tobruk and Shireen. He’d explained our duties, then left us to do as we pleased. After a while,
there’d been a job. And then another job. And within two years Shireen and Tobruk were dead,
Rachel was insane and I was half insane too, fleeing and hiding and trying to rebuild my shattered
life. It had taken years, and once I was whole again, I’d sworn I’d never return. Now I was doing
exactly that.
The creature leading us was walking two paces in front. To a casual glance it would have looked like
a young woman, golden-haired and beautiful, dressed in white. Only the eyes gave it away: when it
had greeted us at the door, I’d met its gaze, and the eyes looking back at me had been blank and
empty. I’d heard of these kinds of constructs – they were called ‘dama’. They were physically weak
and nearly mindless, with only enough intelligence to obey simple commands, but they did have one
particular trait that certain mages valued highly. Dama had no long-term memory: any command
given to them, once executed, faded from their minds. Back when I’d lived in this mansion, Richard
had used house-slaves for these kinds of tasks. The fact that the slaves had apparently been replaced
was an improvement from one point of view, but it had ominous implications.
I stole a glance at Anne, walking beside me. Her hair had grown out a little while we’d been on the
run, and it brushed her shoulders now as she glanced from side to side, reddish-brown eyes searching
the walls. I knew she was sensing the living creatures in the mansion, seeing them through the walls
and doors, but I didn’t dare ask her about it, not here. Her weight was towards the balls of her feet,
and she looked ready to fight or flee. I was glad she was there, and ashamed of that gladness. There
are few people I’d rather have at my side in a tight spot than Anne, but I couldn’t shake the feeling
that she was here because of me.
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