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A little bit of color drained from my face. “Come again?”
He nodded at the top of the cliffs. “The ‘Place of Darkness’ may very well be the Morker Forest to the northeast of Castellia.”
The name gave me a shudder. “Please tell me it’s a beautiful place full of friendly trees and speaking animals that welcome you.”
Luca shook his head. “Far from it. The forest lies between some of the largest of the mountains and covers some thousand acres of a narrow canyon. Its dense trees and eternal shadows meant few ventured to travel under its canopy, and it was a place of natural dark magic where the shadows gathered beneath the trees to grow and thrive. Long ago those traits enticed even darker wizards to perform their spells among those shadows, and so the forest became filled with ev
