The Mage In The Iron Mask (2012) - Plot & Excerpts
His robes of silk and fur already smelled of tobacco and musk. Selfaril Voumdolphin was in deep thought. The resemblance was striking. It was almost like looking in a mirror. True he had the bearing and build of a weakling, as most wizards did, and his whiskers and his mane were more akin to a hermit’s than the well-maintained locks and beard of the High Blade, but in all other respects this young man was the High Blade’s perfect twin. Damn you, father, he thought to himself, cursing his sire. You were almost the perfect High Blade, always with a secret backup plan to assure your own ascendancy and that of your line. We were alike in many ways. No wonder I had to kill you. Had I not acted fortuitously, you would, no doubt, have discerned my future plans and plotted to replace me with your other son. We are alike in many ways, but I am the better High Blade. He heard the bookcase that functioned as a secret door move, and assumed that Rickman had returned, as the Hawk commander was the only one other than himself who knew how to work that entrance.
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