sepelire [lat. to inter, to bury; to perform rituals upon a corpse] No light had touched the walls of the Vauntelaire crypt in the long years since its latest viscount had found rest there with his son. Its seal, rime-veiled granite hewn generations ago from the depths of the Spine and carried to its appointed place at the heels of a dozen sturdy fowl, resisted every attempt to part it from its frame save one. Gièvaix raised a hand to the sigil graven in the stone.
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[sepelire]: latin, "to bury"; older, "to perform rituals upon a corpse". what better gift for verrot upon his nameday.
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