18 The High Towers weren’t a place Mizena had wanted to ever visit again, but when the first archmage called, only a fool refused. Besides, she couldn’t help being curious. The news of turmoil among the high mages had reached her, of course, and she would have considered it yet another shuffle among the ambitious men and women, but the new archmage had turned out to be a surprise… and she brought demons along with her. Whenever Mizena overheard others discussing the presence of those creatures, she remembered the odd but unimposing duo she used to spy on mere weeks ago. To think that Kamira went on to become the new archmage made Mizena wonder what kind of a woman she really was. Tivarashans were considered cunning and sly, but at the same time, it didn’t seem that Veelk would allow someo

