Prologue

                        Prologue
    February 18, 1401 ( February odeviginti, 1401)

    The young man scrabbled names on the piece of parchment, his eyebrows knitted together, his face deep in concentration. Each name that was scrawled onto the parchment was chosen with care, and each fake name for that man to use in the stead of his real name was chosen in Latin. Each letter read the same. Where to go, to tell no one about this affair and to keep quiet. His long hands shaking, the man, no older than twenty-five, packed the letters into a box and delivered each one to the personal residence of its owner.
    As the young men filed into the dark room, a well-built man, clothed in a deep red robe with a hood, making it difficult to see his face, stepped into the room.
    
“You have all been called here to take part in a society. You see, I have uncovered a secret by reading some ancient texts. It will change the future of the royal Monarchy in several countries. Including England, Italy, and France. This secret cannot be spoken about to anyone except when you are here. And even when you are here, you will not know the true identity of the person whom you are speaking to because you will all be assigned a new name. A Latin name, therefore we will speak Latin when here.”
 The speaker changed his tongue to Latin.

“ Understood?”
 
Several men left, obviously unable to understand the young man and the language. The remaining were given cloaks and were revealed their fake names.
    The room was pitch black, and the hooded man, now identical to the others, lit one candle.
“Now,” he said in his thick Latin accent.
“The secret.”

Author's Note

should I continue?

Reviews

[Yuvia Chairez]

I have just one word for this...


..... "more"

[Ama May Cooper]

YES! YES! please do that is an amazing start and i cannot wait to see where the story leads. I do have a point to rasie here beacuse ive spotted a small hole this is apparntly a secret society yes?.. but surley these men who leave beause they cant understand latin, now kno the location and that that it exsits and without ties to the group should be watched to cheak no information leaks out. Altho they do not kno the most important evidently this secret, surely they are to be a danger to the group. And also what is to say that these people in the room willnot say anything..there seems to be a lack of any actual threat on the members that will make them keep there secret. Or that some in the room dont understnad but are simply staying to learn what they can and pass to outside sources. A wonderful beginning all the same and i cannot wait to see this story pan out
A good read.. and i loved the first paragraph the description was wonderful