The written message delivered itself to Ashenveil after an eleven-day journey.
Vael was occupying the council chamber when the youthful practitioner from the silent coven journeyed through the main entrance. She spent the vast majority of her hours in the council chamber after the regiment had marched away. She oversaw the governance of the realm from the expansive surface where Aria had plotted the trek toward the southern lands. The charts remained stretched across the wood, the communication crystals rested in a small timber receptacle at the side, and Helsa remained positioned at the opposite boundary with the correspondence from Selene and her own scribbled annotations.
The youthful practitioner arrived covered in trail grime from her eleven continuous days on horseback.
She handed
