Kaelira couldn’t take her eyes off the page.
The ancient parchment trembled in her hands.
The words were faded.
The edges were blackened by fire.
Yet one sentence stood out as if it had been written yesterday.
“Beware the Four Houses… for one of them began the Great Betrayal.”
A heavy silence settled over the hidden library.
Lucien slowly exhaled.
“If this is authentic…”
“It changes everything we know.”
Kaelira looked at him.
“Or everything we were taught.”
Neither of them noticed the figure hidden behind the towering bookshelves quietly slipping away.
Lucien carefully took the page from Kaelira.
“There has to be more.”
He examined the burnt shelf where the parchment had fallen.
His fingers brushed against loose stones at the back.
One shifted.
A soft click echoed through
