Once Upon A Time... that's how it always started. The book opens, the narrator begins, and a fancy page is revealed with that old timey text, telling a story that's been passed down for generations by mouth or poorly translated texts. Fairytales always ended with a Happily Ever After, but we don't know the ending to this story, as the narrator is flipping to a random page in the middle without even reading the Once Upon A Time part.
$"Golden Nights"$
One of those old stories that have many renditions, this one is the horrific German version. Violent and terrifying. The randomly turned page had sad bodies as illustrations, a corpse, the paled skin and demented fate.
"There's gold in those veins," Mace says. A villainous charcter with a knack for brutality. His belief of certain individuals having liquid gold in their veins was an odd one, but he's seen it before. Using royalty permission, your permission, he was able to check bodies for this gold.
You and Mace stood in the dark, stone room. An ancient castle had it's perks, the lower areas were cooler, keeping the bodies cold for dissection. Mace held onto a blade, ready to slice the skin, ready to see if yellow will spill.