Nyx's POV
I stood up and faced Warrick. "There's an insider. Corvin is more afraid of them than he is of you."
"Who?" Warrick asked.
"I don't know yet. But they're here. In the castle. Probably someone we've seen every day and never suspected."
I thought about all the servants I'd passed in the hallways, the guards who stood outside our door, the healers who worked in the medical wing alongside Corvin.
Any of them could be the insider, watching and waiting.
Warrick's voice dropped. "We tell no one about this. Not until we've searched the lower levels."
"Agreed."
He looked at me.
"You figured this out," he said. "The blood staying in the castle. Lyra being held here. The insider." He stepped closer and cupped my face. "You're brilliant."
I pulled back and knocked his hand away. "D
