Chapter 9As night raced in to claim its hold over the Peruvian desert, a brilliant, fiery red sunset cast the eastern sky ablaze, the light tendrils of high-level cloud coloured orange by the sun as it slipped over the horizon.
With his hands clamped together behind his back, military-style, he raised his face to the sky and enjoyed the last of the sun's warmth on his skin. Despite the warm desert air, a shiver of coldness ran through his ancient body. A light breeze tousled his angelic blonde hair; a sensation he hadn't experienced for many years, for in the bowels of Sheol there was no breeze, only an unnatural stillness. Closing his unearthly amber eyes, he remembered a time when this place had looked very different; when a mighty city had stood on this spot – his city. He mused over t
