Chapter 10I sent my children out into the next nights to find any hunters we might have missed. For several nights we cleansed the surrounding area of those who would defy us, or who could bring the wrath of the Church back to haunt us. It was cold, harsh. I lost myself in it, in the mind-numbing fever of killing. I took comfort in the days, wrapped in the arms of my children, hidden in the darkness of the dungeon where once I had been prisoner.
I lived darkly in those days, reining in the bloody horror of my dark children, who would become heartless monsters beneath my tutelage. My sin in their creation held me a long while. I let my own self-pity and anguish for my two lost loves drive me deeper into that side of me which Crenoral had loved, partaking in an evil far greater than even my
