Chapter 123

• KELILAH’S POV
• The carriage rumbled to a slow halt before the grand palace of Bazil. Rita, Korvus, and I — though they couldn’t see me — had finally arrived.
• Rita stepped down first, her slender figure bathed in the faint silver of the twilight. She gazed up at the looming castle, her chest rising and falling rapidly. I felt her heartbeat falter as a sudden, sharp vision flashed through her mind — a storm of secrets hidden within the castle walls, breaking free like a dam bursting.