Chapter 73 THIS WAS MONSTER BUSINESS

— Kaden —

We were on the clearing where I married Elaeya.

There were no fairy lights, no flowers, no decorations. All the trees were bare except for the evergreens. There were a few early snowflakes falling around us. Pyres had been erected before me. Araeya was singing one of the most mournful songs I ever heard, it shattered everyone’s heart.

Families were carrying shroud wrapped bodies to the pyres, one after the other.

“Anders Johanson, thirty-nine,”...