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Chapter 128: Rannveig Berg
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For a full three seconds I couldn't make my mouth work. The page sat in my hands, Berg's cramped handwriting swimming slightly in front of my eyes, and somewhere distant I heard my own pulse pounding hard enough to drown out the wind outside the broken window. "That's not possible," I said finally, my voice coming out thin, stretched too tight over something enormous trying to break loose beneath it. "Pip has never met this man. He's never left Ironveil territory since he arrived there. There's no way Berg could have assessed him." "He wouldn't need to meet him in person," Kael said, and I could hear him forcing his own voice into careful steadiness, the specific control he used when panic threatened everyone around him and someone needed to stay level. "Vex's network has been tracking redistribution recipients for months. If they identified Pip as significant enough, they wouldn't need direct examination. Sample collection, observed behavior, secondhand reports through an embedde
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I reached the door first and didn't bother knocking. It swung open at my touch, unlocked, and the interior beyond told its own immediate story. Overturned furniture. Papers scattered across the floor. A desk drawer pulled open and emptied in obvious haste. Someone had been here recently, and someone had left in a considerable hurry. "He's gone," I said, my voice flat with disappointment and fury tangled together. "Whoever set those fires, they weren't just a distraction. They were cover for Berg's escape." Aldric moved past me into the room, his silver eyes scanning everything with the particular focus he brought to reading a space for meaning others missed. He crouched near the overturned desk, examining scattered papers with careful attention. "These are partial records," he said after a long moment. "Fragments. He didn't have time to take everything." He held up a single page, and I watched his face go carefully blank in the specific way that always preceded bad news. "Se
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I set the ledger on his desk without preamble, open to the page with Berg's name clearly visible. "Rannveig Berg," I said. "Tell me you recognize that name." My father's face went pale, the specific color draining that told me everything I needed to know before he'd even spoken a single word. "Where did you find this," he said, voice barely above a whisper. "Hedda Kristoffersen kept a second ledger," I said. "Payments authorized for containment services, timed with curse activity across seventeen years. My mother died the same year these payments began." I watched him carefully, the way Hedda had taught me to watch, watching for the truth beneath whatever he chose to say next. "Did you consult him before you asked my mother to break the eastern curse." My father's hands trembled slightly against the desk, and for a long moment he said nothing, his eyes fixed on the ledger like it might rearrange itself into something less damning if he stared hard enough. "Yes," he said
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