Veil of Secrets
At him.
“That shouldn’t have worked,” I said at last, voice low. I didn’t meet his gaze. Not yet. “That tether? Anchored to the Interregnum, built spellwork. Thornveil patterns, Umbraen shadow splicing, dragon-blood sequencing threads. It was meant to bind only to things with a direct signature.”
His eyes sharpened, gaze pointed and piercing. Still, he said nothing.
I met his eyes again, level. “Unless you weren’t just built with their magic. You were anchored to it.”