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I stared.
What was so funny about what I said?
Grandpa continued laughing.
When he finished, I raised my eyebrows.
There was some explaining to do.
He stopped, still smiling.
"So you also believed in that," Grandpa said.
"What?" I asked.
"In the family archives," Grandpa said. "They don't exist. There is no secret knowledge. Why would the Inquisition allow something like that?"
"Because it was ruled by these families?" I said.
I mean, it seems perfectly logical to me.
"The Inquisition," Grandpa said, "was a massive organization that controlled its people with mental magic and magical oaths, a machine that ground its own members just like it ground others. You don't rule a continent with a small cabal of people. The Inquisition was bigger than that. If there were any written
