SamuelWilder

“Eram quod es, eris quod sum.” Inquisitor broke a silence that felt hours long, while he stared into the empty sockets of a dessicated corpse. The venue for this strange vigil was a dim, disused crypt. Light from eighteen candles shimmered against the stone walls and the derelict columns in between. The dead body, housed in a hard plastic box, was once Baron Gilles de Rais, a knight of renown during the Hundred Years War, and comrade to the legendary Joan of Arc. De Rais was also a brutal defiler and murderer of almost two-hundred children. Their body parts he used to barter with demons for alchemical secrets that would restore