Wren's Pov"We've found the third."The whisper dies, and the dark office is silent, and for three long heartbeats, neither of us moves.Then the Headmistress strikes a match. Her hands are shaking so badly it takes her two tries to relight the candle, and when the flame finally catches, I see her face, and I wish I hadn't. Headmistress Corvane, who is famous for never being surprised, looks like a woman standing at the edge of a very long fall."You heard it," I whisper. "Tell me you heard it too.""I heard it." Her voice comes out flat "The voice came from the broken seal, in a dead language, and right here in my own office." She looks at me across the candle. "Except I understood it, Wren, and I have never studied the old tongue in my life. It put the meaning straight into my head."The third. Found. I wrap my arms around myself, but the cold I feel isn't the kind a fire can fix."The third what?" I ask.The Headmistress doesn't answer. She's staring at the opened letter on the des
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