After inspecting the rest of the centipede parts and failing to find anything else significant, Zorian let the eye dissolve and walked away. His initial suspicion was right—this wasn’t some shady deal coming back to haunt Rea and her family, it was connected to the invasion somehow. Admittedly, Zorian had no idea how, but he knew where he could find out.
The Cult of the World Dragon was going to get a lot more visits from Zorian in the coming days.
After that day, Zorian’s daily schedule changed completely. Kirielle lost all interest in magic and no longer attended the lessons he had organized for her, and he decided to free some more time by dropping his membership in Taiven’s group and skipping most of his classes. He spent most of this extra time planning and executing attacks on k
