Sebastian

"I looked at the card, and remembered him. Sebastian, one of the younger generation of the family, recently returned to the ancestral home to claim their right of blood and power. He stood, as if interrupted by a visitor, with an open book in his left hand and his right resting upon the page to mark his place. He had his mother's coloration Flora's sky-deep blue eyes, with hair of reddish-gold and something of her fine features though heavier and with a light beard of reddish-brown. Sebastian wore garments of deep blue, trimmed with royal gold. The Trump placed him before a curio-stacked, overstuffed bookshelf, an unusually marked globe on a pedestal next to him a long-ago attempt at mapping the world of Amber and the surrounding Shadows into a format his Earth-born background could relate to. At his hip was a sword, clasped in gold, and I knew that the scales on the gold cloak he wore were just those, scales, and that they were likely proof from flame and bullet, as they had served their previous draconian wearer. A ring of plain blue jade was upon his finger. Interestingly, I recognized the bookshelves as those from Flora's home in Westchester, and filed it away for reference."

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