“How much lava are we talking about?” “I dunno, I’ve never been there. But the place, the Castle of Murmurin, has a spooky reputation. From what I gathered, it was once an officer training facility for the continent’s elite and the headquarter of the Ishfanian Inquisition. At the start of the Century War, Brandon Maure sent his general, the Lich Furibon, to claim the castle, turning it into a haven for fiends and waking up the volcano they had built the fortress on. The Ishfanian Inquisition did its best to fight off demons but—" "Twenty words," Sen interrupted his minion. Kyle marked a short pause. "Excuse me, Your Majesty?" "I start zoning out after twenty uninteresting words," Sen said. "I know you manlings love to blatter meaningless words, but a dragon has better things to do than

