The Crown of Valkei: Chapter 13 ~ The Countess’s Confessor

A Tale of Two Times: Volume 2, The Crown of Valkei

~ 1 ~ Attired in his priestly garments, Mortimer Kane stood waiting before the Castle’s entrance. Having received a handwritten summons from the Countess Thersa of Greystone Castle, he had climbed the seven wide, curving stone steps to the Castle’s broad terrace and had rung the ornate bell beside its huge, solid wooden doors. With the bell’s mello…