Chapter Fourteen
Devary Kant slipped into the grounds of Draetre’s University of Magic at such an early hour that the sun had not yet risen. After days of travel and only a few hours of sleep, he was tired, but he felt he had little time to waste.
He entered the building with the casual air of a regular visitor – as indeed he had been, once. He wanted to check the library’s catalogue; he knew first hand that the university held some unusual texts, because he had helped to build that collection, and not always by entirely above–board methods. But first he had to talk to someone.
He wasn’t surprised to find that Professor Indren Druaster was already in her office. She was notoriously dedicated – obsessive, even – and she was always the first person to arrive and the last to leave. Devary
