Days went by with the Banned Wing a constant obsession in Felix's head. It was a siren's call, a storehouse of horrors and questions that were intertwined. He avoided Liora, not prepared to deal with the sheer scope of what she'd shown him. The Crimson Annotations in that room were brimming with a history the Academy had tried to keep hidden, a history of power that was wild, unyielding, and hugely dangerous.
His own Codex, the Unseen Tide, was where it belonged. It was turbulent, itsAnnotations flashing more hungrily whenever he recalled the titleless black-bound Codex. Never that one, Liora had warned. Which, of course, made it the central point of his obsession.
He waited until a time when the library was almost deserted, only sounds being the faint hum of the city's magical center in
