The moon was a narrow sliver in the sky, sharp and watchful, when Aria crept into the lower chambers beneath the library.
Talia moved beside her, a flickering orb of light in her palm illuminating the stone corridor. Kade brought up the rear, every sense attuned, his footsteps near-silent.
“You’re sure this is where the parchment said?” he whispered.
Aria nodded. “The lower archives. There’s a hidden antechamber—one only marked by a Rune of Shadow. The parchment was a map.”
“And you think it’ll show us where the third Moonborn is?” Talia asked.
“I think,” Aria said, “it’ll show us what they’re planning.”
Talia muttered under her breath, “I’m getting really tired of secrets written in riddles.”
They found the entrance buried behind a false wall—one that shimmered slightly as Aria tra
