Book One: Chapter Six
Sins and Starlight The oak trees around the small temple near the Bausheiv manor were covered in green leaves but the grass beneath was beginning to fade to yellow. The weather was still quite hot as the sun above reached its zenith nearly an hour before and was continuing its path in the sky. Inside the stone structure, in between the manor and the village, the Meikell twins knelt down on wooden platforms along with those from the village and manor house. They wore matching canary-yellow dresses with embroidered white vines along the sleeves. As was the style of the region, the dresses completely covered ankles and wrists with long sleeves and high collars. The skirts were loose and embroidered with a spiral pattern along the hem. Their heads were covered in a white wimple, hiding their raven-colored hair. An old man with a hooked nose and hair tucked beneath a square cap stood in the back of the tem...