The Keeper: A Short Story Prequel To Forbidden - Plot & Excerpts
Gustov stared with bulging eyes. “Do you even know what year it is?” Talus asked. Pavel’s mind was racing. Gustov looked at him with wild eyes. “It’s…” Pavel quickly tried to add it up. “It must be…I’m not entirely—” “It is Year Two,” Talus said. “Two?” “With Sirin’s passing a new calendar was set. It is two years since Sirin’s assassination. His successor, a man named Megas, has taken those teachings of your beloved master Sirin and twisted them into something darker than any fear you knew before. Do you think you have schooled your emotion so well that you feel no hope? No sorrow? No happiness or anger? I’m telling you that you don’t feel them because you are dead, and not by your choosing.” “This is madness!” Gustov said, hands on his head. “Yes. It is.” Talus dropped the newspaper clipping to the ground and reached into his tunic again. “I should know.” He withdrew a soft leather cloth wrapped around something from his pack. “I created the means by which it was done.”
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