Fall of the Traitor

The stone terrace of the Bell Tower was a battleground suspended between heaven and earth. Seven hundred feet above the jagged rocks of the Werfen gorge, the alpine wind howled with terrifying intensity, blowing sheets of frozen powder horizontally across the ancient battlements. Below them, the lights of the Werfen valley flickered like distant stars through the blinding whiteout. Count Stefan von Habsburg was trapped at the stone balustrade, his…