Roses of Barfunweltz

Kastellan Trutz shifted uncomfortably, trying to avoid the piercing gaze of Lord Tzunaak's night-black eyes. "I just don't know, my Lord..." "We know the Errant Knights were carrying the emberstone - we saw it with our own eyes. I have interrogated them, but their spirits have decayed and their memories are too faint and confused." "Are the Knights of the Thorn likewise withered my Lord?" "Don't be a fool Trutz!" snapped Tzunaak, "Even if they had such memories, their loyalty to the King of Thorns is unbending - they know only his truth!" Trutz gulped. "Did Heisenberg's Panthers perhaps see what happened? They survived longer --" Tzunaak glared at her. "Kastellan Tu'co claims they saw nothing through the mist of red rage that fell upon them. Those blood knights are are as beasts Trutz. Why Countess Zkyla ever gave the blood kiss to knights of the Dark Powers is beyond me - they are practically vargheis...