RoninThe fortress should feel safer after the breach is sealed.It doesn’t.If anything, it feels worse.Because now we know something Kael suspected but none of us wanted confirmed.The Witch didn’t force her way in.Someone helped her.And that means the enemy is already inside our walls.I walk the inner corridor slowly, boots quiet on the stone, two guards trailing behind me like shadows. The ward stones along the ceiling still glow faintly from the surge of magic earlier, their silver light reflecting off the cold walls.But the glow isn’t steady.It flickers.Like a heartbeat that hasn’t settled yet.Lucian meets me at the junction near the servant wing, arms folded, expression tight.“You feel it too,” he says.“This place doesn’t breathe right,” I reply.He nods grimly.“The ward master confirmed it,” he says. “One of the inner runes was weakened before the breach.”My jaw tightens.“Sabotaged.”“Yes.”Silence stretches between us.Because sabotage means intent.And intent me
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