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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 9

The Armory and the Claymore

The Devil's Sacrament · Vivienne Leclair · 6 min read

Deep beneath the foundations of Morven Keep, where the salt air was laced with the scent of gun oil, cold steel, and ancient peat, lay the fortress armory. The subterranean chamber had been hollowed out of solid black basalt during the Jacobite uprisings, its vaulted stone ceilings supported by massive iron pillars that wept moisture in the damp maritime chill. Racks of Lee-Enfield bolt-action rifles, submachine guns, trench daggers, and…

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