The passage Kael led her through was not on any map she'd studied.
She knew, because she'd studied every map available of the Shadow Court's outer structures — obtained at considerable expense from a cartographer in the Veil Market who asked no questions and charged accordingly.
Those maps ended at the vault's documented perimeter.
This passage existed in the space beyond that perimeter, carved into rock that the maps had labeled solid foundation, no access, which was the kind of label that meant someone had wanted it to stay that way.
She catalogued the route as she walked it. Left turn at the iron door. Fourteen steps down. A corridor that ran north-northeast for approximately sixty feet before opening into a chamber that was — not a room.
Not exactly.
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