MINE IN EVERY LIFETIME
Chapter Sixty Five — What She Told Them
They sat.
Caius first.
Then Zane.
Both of them at the small table in the corner of the east building.
The territorial observers had left the room without being asked.
Rhen appeared in the doorway, took one look at Mara's face, and closed the door from the outside.
Mara stood in front of both of them.
She put the file on the table.
She looked at it.
Then at them.
Then she told them.
All of it.
The file number.
The classification.
The Council order eleven years ago.
Edmund at twenty two feeling something fire and go quiet within the same week.
Edmund finding the file three years later.
Edmund walking into Ironveil knowing.
Eight years of carrying it quietly and precisely and without asking anyone else to carry
