Nyra's POVI found him alone in the war room, the maps of the western border still spread across the table from the day before, though he wasn't looking at them. He sat with his elbows braced against the wood, staring at nothing, the particular stillness of a man carrying something heavier than the room could see.I almost turned back. I told myself, standing in the doorway, that there were a dozen better ways to do this, patient ways, careful ways, the kind Mogra had spent my whole life teaching me to use instead of walking directly toward the thing that frightened me most. But the page from the archive was still folded in my pocket, the ink of my father's name still burned behind my eyes every time I closed them, and I didn't have patience left to spend."Can't sleep?" I asked, keeping my voice light as I crossed the room.Kade looked up, and something in his face eased slightly at the sight of me, the way it always did now, in a way I no longer had the luxury of finding comfort. "S
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