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"But this was just recovered from the private study of Alpha Jaxon’s estate in the Obsidian territory. My enforcers found it hidden in a false floor beneath his vault. It bypassed all standard royal screening." Dmitry reached out, taking the cylinder. He twisted the cap, and a small, brittle scroll of black parchment slid into his hand. As he unrolled it, a faint, sickly scent of decayed nightshade filled the mountain air. Natalia leaned in, her golden eyes scanning the elegant, flowing script written in dark crimson ink. It wasn't standard werewolf dialect; it was the high court language of the ancient Eastern Empires. "What does it say?" she asked.

Rowina said, and with a snap of her fingers the glasses were repaired, “So Rex, you said you saw where on the map the crystal stopped before exploding?” “I did, I would show you but…” Rex started to say, glancing down at the shredded map on the heavily damaged table. “Please child, do you really think that is the only map I possess?” Rowina chuckled, raising an eyebrow, “We are inside one of the most up to date collections of everything Dracoterrum has to offer and has offered before” she said, walking over to another table near the door they entered through, sliding the drawer open, reaching in and producing a rolled parchment type document.

This is pure insanity. In my frustration, I finally grab at the saccharine smelling papers, neatly stacked in the file folder. I quickly sift through them, throwing each away from me in my frenzied search for a word that says there is another option, that there is an alternative to her and Stefan being together. I read through the bloodsucker's letters to Talu. I note the vampire's annoyingly tidy cursive, pick up another sheet, and another, and another, and stare at the last piece. It is torn at the bottom and appears to be written by a feminine hand. The handwritten copies are findings from Bibliothèque Nationale de France.

Nara said. Zeus reached into his coat and produced a document that had the specific quality of something that existed at the intersection of the physical and the divine paper that was also not quite paper, ink that held a luminescence at its edges that had nothing to do with the morning light. He set it on the table and slid it toward Nara. "The Pantheon's degradation event assessment. Filed fourteen days ago. The convergence point projections are on the third page."

A tiny lantern hovered between us, casting warm light over scrolls and maps and brittle parchment that had been requested from several restricted archives. I had given up hours ago on pretending this was normal research. “This symbol has been replicated in three separate documents,” I said carefully, sliding a sheet of parchment across the table to Evelina. “Two of them are traced back to right after the dragon wars, early reconstruction.” Evelina picked at the parchment like she didn’t immediately trust it to hold together. She leaned forward slightly, those dark eyes taking in every etched detail with clinical efficiency that few humans could achieve and fewer still could bear to watch.

Arcane writings were inscribed on the walls’ surface and several stone tablets were sitting on a wide counter. “Amich! Silvia! Where are you?” Tiffaun ventured further into the stench of aged papyrus and rust. She followed the sound of a low grunt until eventually, she discovered a 9-year-old boy hiding in the corner shivering in fear. The lower jawline of his face was concealed with a cloth that was partially tied in a knot at the posterior of his short dishevelled silver hair.

“Turned up some new scroll from your Uncle’s collection?” Patterson’s late Uncle, as I think I’ve mentioned before in these pages, had been an avid collector of ancient and forbidden manuscripts. These included original copies of the Corpus Hermeticum and the Picatrix, in both Greek and Arabic. When he passed away, he left his entire collection to Patterson. The rarest and most precious items from this collection had led to the formation of our society, and also helped christen it.

"How do you know these letters weren’t tampered with? They’ve been in your office for days. How do we know they’re not forgeries?" The Princess responded by demonstrating the properties of the Eastern paper. She handed a quill to a jury member. As they tried to write, the paper tore. Gasps filled the chamber. "Our Kingdom does not use this kind of parchment," the Princess explained. "It is rare, expensive, and not suited for our quills." She gestured to a box of ink bottles, brushes, and quills taken from Abigail’s estate. "But with a brush—" she dipped one in ink and wrote her name smoothly on the parchment. "—this paper works just fine."

I genuinely felt sorry for Raze—nobody should be forced to keep up with Lucian’s insane Alpha stamina. Instead of answering, Lucian reached into his leather desk folder and laid a stack of parchment bound in dark dragon-hide before me. "Translate this for me." I blinked, staring at the strange runic letters stamped on the border parchment. "This is High Ancient Ferropenian. Can't you read the old wolf dialects? Why do you need me?" "You're fluent," he stated simple, his voice possessive as his arm tightened around my waist. "Read it." "Fine," I murmured, taking the heavy document into my lap.

Tomas lifts a narrow strip of folded paper from the hollow inside the binding. The room loses all its sound. The paper is sealed with dark red wax. Not Academy wax. The stamp bears the Fennec crest, a small desert fox enclosed within a ring of hooked marks I do not recognize. Caelen's hand closes around the torn map. "Give it to me," he says. Tomas does not. The words are not loud, but they change the room. Cedric straightens at the table. Sena stops cutting bandages. Torven turns from the shutter.