The Demon of Vahrhansa

Cloped in a brown rag carrying a bone-white stuff that emits a sapphire glow from its tip, R.R. walks inside a domed vault where the sound of his footsteps ricochet off the walls and come back to him amplified. Behind a large mahogany desk, crouches a creature a half-horse, half-bat, reading an ancient book. The leathery cover with gleaming scales like crocodile hide seems to groan with each turn of the page,. as if denying to impart its various secrets to the reader.