Shadow Luna
The sapphire crystals on Leo’s talisman flared into a brilliant, blinding blue light, reflecting off the high stained-glass windows.
"I don't take orders from men who pay their debts with Covenant gold, Kaelen," Leo said. The words weren't loud, but they carried a terrifying clarity that made the glass sconces on the pillars vibrate.
Aria stepped up beside him, her face a mask of absolute, unyielding competence. She didn't wait for a formal invitation. She reached beneath her silver cloak and pulled out the thick, iron-bound ledger recovered from the final vault gates of the fortress—the gold lineage registry. She dropped it onto the central clerk's table with a heavy, definitive thud that e