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Gilles de Rais, a Breton baron, has everything: fame, power, fortune, a long, pointy shoe to kick his servants with. The knowledge that death will one day strip him of it all, though, prevents him from enjoying any of it—no matter how much his servants cry out, clutching their shins. For Gilles, every moment that passes is a tragedy. In desperation, he recruits Prelati, a necromancer, to make a deal with a demon on his behalf: immortality in exchange for the soul of Gilles’s most faithful servant, Henri.