![]() Ever since the rat attack, Marianne’s retainer had chosen to stay in his true form. “I smell rats inside the walls,” Bertrand said, eyes red as blood and fangs out. A defaced stone gargoyle loomed over the rusted iron doors and the darkness beyond them. The castle had been abandoned for nearly two decades, and yet nature hadn’t taken it over.Ī place so evil even plants won’t enter it, Marianne thought as she looked at the archway entrance. ![]() The absence of vines or mushrooms also disturbed Marianne. Most towers had collapsed, and the few that still stood looked like broken fingers. The Knights’ fires had consumed most of the wooden parts of the architecture, leaving only ashes and black stone. Marianne scarcely saw a roof without a hole, or a battlement without a breach in its stone. The fortress’ dark walls hadn’t aged well. ![]() Even as a crumbling ruin, Castle Verney looked foreboding.
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