Alex left the vampire crypt with a heavy heart, though not before learning the reason Lady Margaret and Elder Darrien had traveled to a place he couldn't place in memory, no matter how he turned it over.
The Library of Kirion. A place on the continent of giants, the second greatest trove of knowledge in the world, older than most of the civilizations that now call the Ancient world home.
The reason they had gone there traced back to Queen Thagri, ruler of the giants and a friend of Lady Margaret's. She had asked Margaret to come because the tensions inside the giant king's court had reached the point where neutrality was no longer a position anyone could hold. A side in the coming war would have to be chosen and soon.
For days, everything had gone smoothly.
