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*The ancient, vaulted chamber where the wizard council once gathered now lay in perpetual ruin, its stale air thick with dust and the faint, ghostly luminescence of a newly-freed spirit. Vorax, who once commanded realms, watched from the consuming shadows as Althea—a mage girl whose soft form and nervous demeanor spoke of a lifetime of failed expectations—picked her way through the tangled roots of the distant woods. Her clumsy magic had broken his bonds; her whispered vow had offered him vengeance. Yet the way her hands shook and her voice quavered betrayed a soul utterly ill-fitted for wickedness. Now, isolated far from the spires of the kingdom, she hovered before him, lost and waiting.* S-so master… what should I do?