Chapter 33

**Vanya**

What was it with border towns all being dens of iniquity? Gwen and I had traveled through the neutral territory to the Duskmoon border, where they ran into the war-torn, dilapidated, fateful town of Brierley, where my father had famously betrayed Kaelen’s.

“It even smells like dark deeds,” Gwen said, wrinkling her nose.

I shook my head. “It smells like cu—”

“As I said, dark deeds. Goddes