The Grey Keep announced itself before they saw it.
There was a quality to the air that changed approximately half a mile out — a density, a pressure, the specific atmospheric weight of a place that had absorbed centuries of significant events and had never fully released them. Seraphina felt it first, which made sense, vampires were more sensitive to charged locations than wolves, but Kael’s hands tightened slightly on the wheel within thirty seconds of her noticing it, which told her the sensitivity difference was smaller than the textbooks suggested.
“You feel it,” she said.
“Like standing too close to something electrical,” he said. “But older.”
“Eight hundred years of concentrated intent,” she said. “The Eastern Compact chose this location deliberately. It sits on the convergence p
