Chapter 13
RIDER CORNATAN led Carro through a corridor made of dark stone into another room, also illuminated with the same eerie green light. The polished black marble on the floor contained the shapes of leaves and many-legged creatures such as Carro had never seen. The room was bare except for a table in the middle.
On a table lay a variety of things Carro surmised must be weapons. Long sticks of metal glinted in the emerald light that radiated from the walls. On the end of one of the sticks was a glass bulb with many carved facets.
Carro wanted to ask about it, but Rider Cornatan strode past the table and pressed a panel on the opposite wall. At his touch, an entire section of stone slid aside to reveal a hidden room.
There were four men in the room, two of them grey-haired Senior
