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The Virulent Spindle
Christian didn’t say how he gained access to the Sacred Halls for Aylen. It was not a request the Head Magus would grant under any circumstance, and it was only the elders granted access at all.
Aylen didn’t ask him for the truth, because she was already asking too much. She had decided upon the answer anyhow, for whatever that was worth. Christian wasn’t the only Dereham at the Sepulchre. There were three, but one, in particular, was especially notable to the tenure and order of things at the Consortium. Rorric Dereham was the brother of Christian’s esteemed grandfather, Hadden. He’d spent every year of his life since his twelfth within the Sepulchre, and when he entered the yawn of his twilight years, they made him an elder.
The position of elder wasn’t a guar
