Chapter 40: The Trap
It was Tam's idea, in the end, simple and cruel in its elegance: tell four different people four different secrets, and see which one reached Cassian's ears.
"To Marius," I said, "I'll say I found a second sealed room under the Hollow."
"To Odalys," Tam said, "through Petra, since she can't keep her mouth shut, we'll say you're planning to go north to find Dunmere survivors yourself."
"To Isolde, that I've decided to formally renounce any claim to my father's seat, to avoid the Reckoning entirely."
"And to Ronan?"
I hesitated a long moment.
"That I found a second name on the Tithe wall," I said finally. "One that isn't dead yet."
It took four days. On the fifth, Cassian requested an audience with my father, "regarding troubling information," and demanded, befor
