The bigger map took three hours to assemble.
Master Zhou pulled every cartographic record in the palace archives. Sera contributed Eastern Kingdom surveys. The Wolf Clan general — her name was Raya, Xin finally learned — produced northern territorial maps that were more accurate than anything the imperial cartographers had made.
They covered the entire garden table. Weighted the edges with stones.
Six territories spread across a continent. Forty-two convergence points marked in red. Five distinct white fire signatures pulsing somewhere in that expanse like candles in separate rooms of a very large house.
Xin stood over it and felt the signatures through the ley line connection, trying to pin them to geography.
"Northwest," he said. Master Zhou marked it. "Deep in the mountains. Far en
