Isadora's POV :
I found the third one at the bottom of the stack.
This one was worse than the other two. Whoever had opened it had not even tried very hard to reseal it, the wax was pressed down on one side and completely lifted on the other, like they had been in a hurry or simply stopped caring. I turned it over and looked at the contents without meaning to and what I saw made me go very still.
It was from someone called Mordecai.
I did not know that name yet but the tone of the letter was not the tone of someone writing to an ally. It was careful and loaded in the way of someone communicating something in plain sight, every line saying one thing and meaning something else underneath it.
I set it down in front of Evander without a word.
He looked at it. Then at me.
"Bottom of the
