Chapter 70 What Cassandra Brought

• Kaden didn’t sleep. He sat at the window of the room the council had given them and watched the valley mouth until his eyes burned.
• The shimmer around Cassandra’s camp was more visible at night. It caught the firelight wrong, bending it in directions light shouldn’t go. And it pulsed. Regular as a heartbeat. Regular as the Archive had been before it fell.
• Kael appeared at his shoulder sometime after midnight. His brother moved differently now, quieter, like he was trying not to disturb the air.