Chapter 1004 – Gone [Part 2]
The one who had failed to kill him last time had returned to the Shadow Corridors and started speaking.
The coward had told his friends the rumors were true.
That Kaelmor's power came from borrowed creatures of the mortal realm.
Borrowed.
As if kings did not borrow from everyone.
Some Shadow Corridor lords started searching for weaknesses.
Some sent spies.
Some, apparently, had enough suicidal boredom to bother him just for amusement.
Demonic pranks were not mortal pranks.
Mortal prank was salt in tea.
Demonic prank was dream-sending screaming faces into a king's sleep at precisely the moment his mind entered deep rest.
Three nights in a row, Kaelmor had woken to laughter in his dreams.
One had sent him a dream of his throne turning into a feeding chair while unseen beasts chewed his shadow.
Another had filled his mirrors with false reflections showing him aging, weakening, hollowing.
