Chapter 133

*Kaelen*

I found Valerius exactly where I expected to: hunched over a long slab of shattered stone that once served as a table, deep in the back of the ruined library near the edge of the camp. His coat was streaked with soot, one sleeve rolled up past his elbow, veins dark with the residue of temporary enchantments. His fingers moved fast across a scrap of parchment, quill twitching like it was m