‘I have also not been allowed to meet with this woman who somehow managed to sneak into the castle. Master Rio was still in her own deep trance and he really had no idea what he was supposed to be doing next, so he was going to take advantage of this time and spend it with his wife for as long as he could. XXX She didn’t seem to mind the gesture though and purred under the action slightly. The one and only time he had tried to get to sleep had been marred by a new nightmare, one of him standing alone in that massive gap in the earth. Look at your hands, love.’
Richard looked down at his hands and realized that the rings controlling the flow of his magic had once again taken on a black color and black light seeped from them and sapped the color out of the room around his
