Beretta - Brooke
The basement opened into a single large chamber, circular, perhaps forty feet in diameter. In the center stood a pedestal of the same black material, and on the pedestal, a book. It was huge—two feet tall, a foot wide, bound in leather that might have once been brown but had aged to the color of dried blood. The pages were not paper but vellum, and they were covered in handwriting so small and precise it looked more like engraving.
"Of course. But I should mention—there are two other restoration architects on the shortlist. The first to accept gets the job. I'll give you until midnight." brooke beretta
And tonight, on the last night of October, when the veil is thin, Silas intends to turn it. The basement opened into a single large chamber,