CHAPTER 101: Conflicted

At first, Gilyan was confused. Why would His Darkness lie to him to this extent? Why would he say such words when that wasn’t the case?

He couldn’t fathom why he would go to such lengths to secure his trust, if it was that. He remembered how he had met his master and rescuer not too long ago. It was in the summer two years back.

Gilyan vividly remembered the stench of rotting bodies that was mixed with the smell of blood, urine, feces, and molten trash on that day. He had been caged for a month with the dead, the sick, and the decrepit for far too long then that it didn’t even matter anymore that he was there...

He already felt dead just like them, so there was no point in minding where he was and where he will be headed. Everything has always been the same since his mother died when he reached his twelfth birthday.

Of course that wasn’t always true. He was happy when he and his mother were working for Duke Humphrey’s estate in Gaulane, his hometown.