Chapter 69
Through Emily, Emrys, and Thomas, we learn how serious the threat they face is. This wasn’t just a digital crawl—the map Emrys stumbled upon had chaos written all over it. Each star might be a local chapter of a mysterious organization that exists beyond the tiny Blackthorn Valley.
"By the way," Amrith said—her voice sounded more serious than a soldier's—as she placed the paper, a folded brown rectangle larger than it looked, on a table in their hideout, an outbuilding behind an abandoned hotel five or six miles outside the city. Mobilize others around the globe to minimize your forces' exposure without having to risk using your friends to expand the staging area.
Emily sat in front of the map, her fingers pressed against the table. She still whispered as the drums of war bea
