C1078 Empress Loran Upper(2)
When Loran glimpsed the tender visage of her mother, her eyes welled up with tears.
Her mother had perished in childbirth, a sacrifice to bring her into the world.
The cause of death, as her father had explained, was the Evilkind beyond the Empire's borders. That recent assault by a spectral claw was undoubtedly the machinations of the Evilkind lurking in the shadows
