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The Devil's Sacrament
  1. 1. The Decrypted Ledger
  2. 2. Across the Raging Minch
  3. 3. The Iron Gate of Morven
  4. 4. The Midnight Siphon
  5. 5. Tasting the Fire
  6. 6. Blood and Velvet 🔒
  7. 7. The Morning Treaty 🔒
  8. 8. The Scriptorium of Shadows 🔒
  9. 9. The Armory and the Claymore 🔒
  10. 10. Raid on the Smuggler's Barge 🔒
  11. 11. The Traitor's Confession 🔒
  12. 12. Before the Great Hearth 🔒
  13. 13. Unvarnished Hunger 🔒
  14. 14. The Winter Solstice Ultimatum 🔒
  15. 15. The Fog of the Minch 🔒
  16. 16. The Decoy of Gull Rock 🔒
  17. 17. Artillery over the Breakers 🔒
  18. 18. Breach at the Lower Seawall 🔒
  19. 19. The Clifftop Stand 🔒
  20. 20. The Captured War Chest 🔒
  21. 21. Vows in Ash and Salt 🔒
  22. 22. The High Council of Morven 🔒
  23. 23. The Voyage to the Forth 🔒
  24. 24. Shadows over Edinburgh 🔒
  25. 25. The Gala of the Hollow Crown 🔒
  26. 26. The Mask Drops 🔒
  27. 27. The Clifftop Pursuit 🔒
  28. 28. Retribution on Arthur's Seat 🔒
  29. 29. The Return of Sinclair Hall 🔒
  30. 30. The Charter of the Isles 🔒
  31. 31. The Clifftop Proposal 🔒
  32. 32. The Royal Wedding of Morven 🔒
  33. 33. A Sacrament in Silk and Fire 🔒
  34. 34. The Spring Fleet 🔒
  35. 35. The Heirs of Morven 🔒

Chapter 23

The Voyage to the Forth

The Devil's Sacrament · Vivienne Leclair · 5 min read

The winter voyage down the eastern coast of Scotland was a masterclass in naval precision and tactical stealth. Under the cover of a dense sea fog rolling in from the North Sea, the MacKenna flotilla—consisting of the armored cutter *Cailleach*, the *Scythe*, and the refitted, black-hulled ironclad *Nemesis*—steamed through the Pentland Firth, slipping past the naval patrols of Scapa Flow without raising a single alarm. The ironclads were blacked out,…

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