I really enjoy the way you introduce us into a world of strange terminology and culture through a point of universal sympathy. The scene of a child's play draws us in in a way that a rush of breathless jargon would fail to do. It creates a point of sympathy and identification that inclined me to learn more and more about your characters and their world.

Witnessing the abduction of her mother and the murder of her father by the High Guard, a young girl determined to follow her mother's honored trade continually dreams of her world's destruction. Premonition? Set in a universe with demons, it likely is. 

very compelling concept here

For as long as anyone could remember, the people of Veschke have lived in fear of fiends—spirits of wild places and volatile forces, agents of the fell lord Sokar, god of death... Need I say more?

I think this is one of the neglected gems here.