Chapter 206

• Of course, they would hide something so important in plain sight.
• Zeke felt the change immediately the moment nothing was left of the fountain. It was like a bond had been broken. He remembered the morning he had come out to look for the councillors after their first visit, and Iulia had been messing with the fountain. He’d sensed something then; he should have put it together sooner.
• The beasts sniffed around the smashed fountain, at the water gushing freely from the pipes, before they walked away from the rubble and started circling them.