The Crown of Gilded Bones (Blood and..

Chapter 42
You always had the power in you.
The words echoed through me as I roamed the halls of
the Evaemon Palace several days later, trying to learn
where all the many halls led and the purpose of all the
rooms while Casteel spent time with his father and mother
in the brightly lit family room.
An unrelenting malaise nipped at my heels, following my
steps just as Arden, the silver-and-white wolven, and Hisa
and another Crown Guard did. Except they were far quieter
than my thoughts.
I couldn’t shake the feeling that my friends’ lives had
been risked. And for what? To learn that whatever these
Revenants were, was a greater evil than we knew? Which,
by the way, meant that was all we knew. No one, not even
Casteel’s parents, could hazard a guess as to what a
Revenant could be and how it would warrant such a
warning.
I traveled the back hall of the west wing where the staff
offices were located, as were the laundry and the kitchens.
Warmth crowded the area, along with the aromas of fresh
linen and roasted meat as I admitted that the trip to
Iliseeum hadn’t been a complete and utter waste. I had
learned that Nyktos was a Primal god, something Valyn
vaguely remembered hearing his grandfather mention once.
And until now, he’d believed that his grandfather had been
speaking of the gods we’d always known. Discovering that I
had Primal blood explained why my abilities were so