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CHAPTER 27 — The Frostveil Vault

Author: Mercy V.
last update Last Updated: 2025-12-29 13:20:58

The alert text burned on the panel.

**EXTERNAL BREACH — TRIBUNAL ENFORCERS ON GROUNDS**

His jaw tightened. Mine went cold.

Tribunal enforcers—here. Now.

“Time’s up,” Kieran said. “You want the relic, you get it now, or you get nothing.”

Daire swung toward the inner hall. “Vault first,” he said. “If we run without it, we run blind.”

“And if we get trapped?” I asked.

He met my gaze. “Then at least we’re trapped with leverage.”

It's not exactly comforting. But better than *trapped with nothing*.

“Come on,” he added. “They’ll hit the main doors first. We have minutes before they remember Frostveil has a belly as well as a face.”

He didn’t take the obvious route.

Instead, he ducked into a side corridor half-hidden behind an innocuous panel—one I’d always thought led to linen storage. He pressed his palm against an unmarked section of the wall. There was a faint click, and then the panel swung inward on silent hinges.

A narrow passage yawned beyond. Stone. Dark. The air colder, older, less
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