Chapter 830 Unlikely Encounter

• "The cathedral squatted in desolation at the ragged edge of the Holloway Slums, its stained-glass windows gutted and its bell tower nothing more than a nesting ground for pigeons. No person of rank would willingly come within a mile of these cracked steps. Visitors were scarce, drifters at best, never men who commanded battalions or signed treaties.
• Xander, more than anyone, knew every broken pew inside this ruin. For Casper to appear here without warning—without cause—made no sense at all."
• Casper ignored the question. He advanced two deliberate paces, boots scraping against grit, before turning his full attention on Xander.