‘And I sought for a man among them that should make up the hedge and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found none.’ Hadassah stared blankly at the writing inscribed on the damp wall—words in her mother tong...

Caelestis took a blade to his brother’s neck. The head rolled into the pool of blood at his feet. His robes were soaked with rainwater; feet sunken into the now-muddy shores of the forgotten. Mist rose from the black sea and covered the battlefield ...