Brotherhood of the Gemstone Chapter III: A Sword in the Dark

And a house in flames

Ere the winter was in its final days, betwixt the height of a great freeze and the start of the final thaw that was to forecast the dawn of spring, things began to change. Change had long been in the air, as day by day new rumours and tales of dark riders travelled from mouth to mouth. What added to the sense of wrongness, of growing alarm that circulat…