>“Yet it ended in bloodshed.”
“Sadly, yes.” Snow stepped through the doorway and Never followed his brother into a long hallway lined with stone doors. Each door bore an Amouni symbol, he saw the three fingers, the coil, the lightning bolt hitting the V, the mountain ridge and others from Snow’s die, but many he did not recognise.
They came to a halt at a door bearing two circles, one off-set within the other. Again, his brother brushed the stone with a blood-stained finger and a silver light admitted them. Snow lifted the lantern, setting it on a hook, then stepped aside.
An unfinished skeleton of silver and bone had been tied to a chair.
The skull was intact, its eyeless gaze brimming with shadow, but several teeth were missing. It bore one collar bone only, several ribs were abse
