Fira slammed the ancient ledger shut so hard that dust exploded off its cover.
"Kane," she said, voice tight. "You need to see this. Now."
Kane crossed the archive room fast, exhaustion forgotten. "What did you find."
"The fourth bloodline," Fira said, opening the ledger back to a marked page. "I finally found the actual account of what happened to them. It's been deliberately buried, cross-referenced under an unrelated section to avoid casual discovery."
Brennan, still recovering but insisting on helping, leaned in close. "Read it."
Fira traced the faded script carefully. "'The fourth guardian bloodline, entrusted with maintaining balance between the original authority and the physical world, ceased to exist in the year following a schism within the authority itself. Certain factions
