(Caius)
Pryor found me in the office two hours later.
I'd left Isla in the library with strict instructions not to touch anything while I handled the correspondence that had accumulated during the Council visit. She hadn't argued which told me she was still sitting with everything the sealed letter had revealed.
Pryor set a envelope on the desk in front of me.
"From Zeron," he said.
I looked up.
"That was fast," I said.
"He sent it before you sent yours," Pryor said. "They crossed on the road."
I broke the seal and read it.
Zeron had been thorough. He always was. The report covered three separate findings, each one building on the last in the way Zeron built everything, methodically, without gaps.
The first was the confirmation I'd already suspected. Torvin hadn't died from the w
