Antomír’s Tale
My dears.
I’m not afraid of calling you both that. You are both dear to me, and my best memories of this past, horrible year are of moments with you. Raven’s Bane. The quiet before the storm.
What both of you do not know is my dark secret. I have been soul-bonded to Gamayun, the Day-Seer, for a long time. No, it isn’t like the Sirin bond at all. That is love. This is more like r**e.
The Raven’s plan, eons in the making, was many-sided and very subtle. One part of it involved the subversion of Gamayun. He is, as you know, a trickster. But to weave an illusion that would trick the one who sings all times into being? That was something masterful—I admit it freely. He trapped Gamayun, leaving her only one way out of a future so terrible, she nearly went mad as it began to we
