Hollow Throne
She held the table with both hands and looked at the Vault's amber light and the old stone and the manuscripts in their archival sleeves and felt the specific quality of a discovery that didn't just change the map she'd been building, it changed the scale of it entirely.
"Caspian," she said quietly.
"Yes," he said.
"The first agreement," she said. "The community."
"Yes," he said.
"They're from my region," she said.
"Yes," he said.
"The Vael bloodline made its very first agreement," she said, "with a community from my part of the world."
He held her gaze.
"Yes," he said.
She looked at the Vault.
"The twelve families in the register," she said. "The founding settlement."
"The community that ca
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