In the heart of the ancient palace known as Palazzo Macedon, whose first bricks were supposedly laid by the emperor himself, sat three men, looking out the window to a view of a magnificent garden, with Lake Natura as the backdrop.
The palace was a little ways from Valencrest city, which is why it was deprived of the hustle and bustle that accompanied a metropolis. But more importantly, it was deprived of all the security that usually accompanied such a place. The fact that it even contained a garden, full of grass, bushes, trees and flowers, meant that it was practically asking to be cursed. Yet the palace had withstood the test of time, surviving for nearly a thousand years.
