Saying that his smirk widened, and with the single motion of his fingers, the room responded—twisting.
I could feel the slow burn of his attention as his gaze flickered to Seth, to Kade. He wasn’t fooled by our disguises. His smirk deepened, but he made no move to call us out. Perhaps, not yet.
Suddenly, a sharp chime rang out announcing the beginning of the ceremony.
The walls shimmered, the gold filigree stretching like veins across a living corpse. The towering pillars, which had stood rigid just moments ago, moved. Even the black banners of Maeral’s insignia seemed to shift, the ink shifting into runes before bleeding back into fabric.
‘Something dark was layered beneath this room.’ I said inwardly.
“Do you see this?” Seth murmured beside me, his voice barely audible under the ris
