The Inquisition finds Aiden Odysseus, a child no more than ten years of age, dead from a mortal wound in the stomach, surrounded by seven charred corpses. Although the leader of the group, the Inquisitor, expects to see such corpses, as what brings about their presence are reports of a fire, he thought it odd that this child is not at all burned.
His curiosity only increases when he gets closer and realizes that there is half a man, the bottom half, still on top of the boy’s legs. He peers at the boy, studying the knife handle sticking up from the left side of the boy’s stomach, blood pools all around him. The person buried the whole length of the blade, he thought. As his head hung over the boy’s face, studious and curious, he thinks, What could have happened here?
Then, shocking panic surges through his entire body when the boy let out a cough, which is accompanied by blood that splatters over his face. He yells out, “The boy is still alive!” He gestures his men for medical attention as he wipes the blood from his eyes.
After they stabilize the boy, albeit temporarily, they hastily rush him back to their headquarters, the knife left in place because they fear removing it would worsen the blood loss.
At that moment, the Inquisitorcould not decide whether the boy was lucky or not.
