Chapter 151: Franklin - The Promise, Part 7
Franklin took the flaming wood, then followed Greneth and three of Senya's mismatched guards. They wound down a set of stairs to a stone basement. A row of coffins gave them an approximate count of the coven members but two small coffins seemed out of place, one even littler than the other. What would need a box that tiny? A cat or small dog?
Or a baby.
Franklin sucked in a breath at the thought. That Oren's coven had a secretbut such a secret? An immortal child or children? Not only was it against The Laws, but it was the ultimate act of cruelty, to trap someone in a child state forever, leaving them with an immature body even as their mind tried to develop. There was a good reason it was illegal, and to do it to a baby
They stopped next to the boxes. Franklin thought Greneth might have drawn the same conclusion he had, but instead he pointed to the back wall. "It's behind there. I saw us opening it."
"How?" Franklin asked.