This story takes place 10 years before the novel Shades of Gray [in the Amaranthine Saga] and opens at the Sodalitas' stronghold in Munich, Germany. Though there is not an exact date for the novel, it is something like seven to ten years after Greneth's story.

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Cyprus looked over the note; chocolate eyes rereading his slanted handwriting. The introduction was short, followed by a poem:

My lady of light, in darkness I dwell without ...