The days that followed settled into a frustrating rhythm.
Nothing happened.
No mysterious messages.
No hidden meetings.
No Zane.
It was so frustrating. It was more, the last reason that frustrated Lilith to no end. She thought he was supposed to be a faculty member here, so shouldn’t be here in the school… working?
After everything Lilith had uncovered beneath the archives, the academy carried on as if it had never happened. Lectures resumed. Combat drills filled the mornings. Strategy classes consumed the afternoons. Even the whispers about James Rothwell's death gradually disappeared beneath complaints about examinations and impossible professors.
The academy had a remarkable talent for swallowing its own scandals.
Lilith hated it.
She hated feeling as though she had been allowe
