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Author: Kave Derry
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CHAPTER 30

Camryn's POV

The original Camryn’s journals were spread across my desk like evidence at a crime scene.

I’d been at it for two hours, squinting at her cramped Lenorian handwriting by lamplight, trying to piece together fragments that still didn’t make sense. My neck hurt. My eyes burned. And I was no closer to understanding why someone had executed her than I’d been when I started.

“Come on,” I muttered, flipping to another page. “Give me something new.”

I flipped over the pages and saw an entry; it was dated three months before her death. Something about genealogy records at House Rosetti, about gaps in the family trees that didn’t add up. She’d circled certain names and drawn lines connecting bloodlines that shouldn’t connect. But the rest was in that formal Lenorian script Fabian had been teaching me, the kind used for official documents. I could make out maybe half of it.

I was reaching for my translation notes when someone knocked.

I shoved the journals into my desk dra
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