The Luna He Gave Away
For now, that mattered.
Kael's cipher specialist arrived within twenty minutes of being sent for a quiet man who worked with documents the way Gareth worked with patrol routes, methodically and without being asked unnecessary questions.
He sat at the desk with the sealed document and opened it carefully.
The message inside was in two parts. The first section was code-dense and layered, the kind that would take time to fully unpack. The second section was cleaner. A partial location reference, written more quickly than the rest, as though added as an afterthought or a separate instruction.