Eryx.
The passage ended at a solid wall.
I stood in front of it with my hands flat against the stone and pushed and found nothing. No give. No hinge. Just old wall that had been old wall for longer than anyone currently living could remember.
Dead end.
I turned back and retraced the passage in the dark, my men behind me, and came back up through the cupboard into the small empty room and stood in it and looked at what we had.
Nothing.
A passage that went nowhere. A false trail in the forest. A note on a cot.
Someone was very good at this.
"We're chasing shadows," I said.
Cade said nothing because there was nothing to say.
I pressed my jaw tight and turned for the door.
We came through the east corridor fast, my men fanning out ahead, and I was already running through everything
