An early draft passage from the upcoming Sword of the Magnus, Book Two of the Paladin of Shadow Chronicles: A tangle of tunnels twisted through the catacombs that once provided refuge to the earliest adherents of the Christian faith, those who fled the streets of Rome above from the horror of imperial pogroms. Many of those refugees scratched a brief word or two across the crudely hewn walls, their scratchings covering centuries of other, older communications left behind by…..
