The archive access problem resolved itself, partially, in a way that none of us anticipated.
Three days after the Aine conversation, Maren Doss returned from the eastern territories with seven people in her company, four of whom were former Hollow Court members and three of whom were blood witches from the eastern quarter who had been recruited for the forced collapse program and had changed their minds upon arrival.
She brought them to Vaelthorn with the expression of a woman who had spent three days in intense conversation and had not slept enough.
“The Hollow Court is not a unified body anymore,” she said, in Caelan’s study, with her seven companions arranged behind her. “Aine’s reorganization was holding it together and with Aine no longer aligned with them they have fractured into
