(Isla)
Caius came back to the library an hour after he'd left.
I heard him before I saw him. His footsteps in the corridor had a different quality than when he'd left. Not heavier. More certain. Like someone who had found something worth bringing back.
He sat down across from me and set Zeron's letter on the table between us.
I looked at it then at him.
"Tell me," I said.
He did.
He went through it in the order Zeron had written it. The second dose of wolfsbane administered to Torvin after he was already confined. The Council courier named Cael who had accessed Torvin's cell in the days before his death and disappeared from every official record shortly after. The payments traced through a third party back to an account connected to a name that hadn't appeared in any active record f
