The report they buried

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(Isla) I watched Sorin, waiting for more. A rogue could have explained the blood if Halvon had been telling the truth. But after everything we'd uncovered, I doubted that explanation. Sorin clearly hadn't believed it either. "Did you see the body?" I asked. "Did Halvon take you to where it happened?" I kept my eyes on Sorin. "There should have been something left behind." "No." Sorin placed the paper on the table. "I asked him to show me where he'd found the rogue, but he refused." His mouth turned down. "He said he'd already disposed of the body." Caius glanced at Pryor. There was no report of a rogue being killed during that journey in the records we'd seen. Halvon had disappeared for hours, returned covered in blood, then kept the details out of the official account. Someone had lat

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