Darius's Pov

I called an emergency meeting with everyone who was still loyal to me and we gathered in the main hall. There were only about twenty five people left after all the defections and the attack. It was not much but it would have to be enough.

"The Patriarch has Soraya" I started. "He is keeping her in a hidden fortress somewhere in the mountains north of here. We have three days to find her and get her back before he completes some kind of ritual."

"What kind of ritual?" one of the warriors asked.

"I do not know the details but it involves breaking her seal completely and...