Blood Sample

After his students left, Adam sat alone in the room, deep in thought. The faint sound of Valerian sleeping on his lap continued to echo in rhythms.

Magus Stratford was unable to kill Morven the Malevolent, he thought. So in the end, he could only seal him in the heart of the Weeping Woods.

The patriarch of the Howlett Family happened to come across a secret inheritance left behind by Morven and thus became corrupt.

He then killed his family before he was ultimately killed by Mayor Hobbs and the four town council members…

Adam went through the relevant points in his head, trying to connect the dots and make sense of it all.

But for some strange reason, he felt there was something amiss. He just couldn't put a finger on it.

Blood, he thought. That is the key to everything!