The Ninth Cipher
he whispered.
"...because blood remembers."
Lucien smiled for the first time since entering the library.
"Now you're asking the right questions."
Adrian barely heard him.
His attention had shifted to another shelf.
Hundreds of journals stood in perfect order.
Each spine carried nothing except a year.
1348.
1349.
1350.
1351.
1352.
1353
Years that historians associated with plague, war, conquest, or catastrophe.
He pulled one volume halfway from the shelf.
"Why these years?"
Elias didn't stop him.