Chapter 108

*Rowan*

The first light of dawn crept through the windows of my office, illuminating the papers strewn across my desk. Maps, scrolls of ancient texts, and notes filled with desperate scribbles about every possible remedy, ritual, and spell I’d tried over the past two years. Each represented a failure, a dead end.

But now, I had something I hadn’t felt in what felt like forever—hope.

I leaned back