Chapter 605

• "I don't know," Caera said. "Whatever happened here happened... probably millions of years ago. If I had to guess, it happened after the First War. Lucifer gone, archangels dead, and all the Old Ones dead, too? Power struggle. The children wanted the spires for themselves and tore each other apart for them. They probably fought over Death's Grip in this mountain."
• "Millions? Holy shit, how old is Vinicius?"
• "No one knows," Acelina said, joining them. "I doubt he knows, either. Time blurs for demons, when speaking in terms of millennia. But he might not be so old as these statues. Spires can still give birth to the children of the Old Ones."