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Chapter 86 - The Fault Was Never His
“What did you have to fix this morning?” Kael asked. He tilted the woman's heater toward the light so Mateo could see inside without bending his sore wrist.Mateo pointed to a copper strip beneath the empty power stone. “That kept slipping loose. I put a new clip on it. Go ahead and pull.”Kael gave the strip a tug. It stayed put. The clip fitted neatly into a space barely wide enough for a fingertip. He'd have been happy with that piece of work himself.The woman leaned across the counter. “I didn't drop it, if that's what you're looking for.”Mateo glanced up. “I know. You brought it here wrapped in a better towel than we own.”She eased her grip on the cloth. One corner bore a brown patch where it had touched the hot plate. Whatever had happened, the heater had worked long enough for her to start dinner.Kael lifted out the dead stone. “Have you got another one from the same box? One you haven't used?”Mateo took a paper packet from a drawer. The depot's seal still held the flap sh
Chapter 85 - A Place at Their Table
Kael flicked two fingers. The leader's wrist jerked away from the alarm plate, and his knuckles struck the doorframe instead.The man swore. Behind Kael, the guard with the knife stepped around the cart.Kael caught the cart handle and swung it across the narrow space. The guard stumbled against it, losing room to strike. A short push of magic knocked the knife from his hand before he could recover.The blade skidded beneath the shelter. Kael drove his elbow into the man's chest and shoved him against the post.Mateo pulled his box clear of the struggle. “Behind you!”The third guard dropped the book and lunged with the restraints. Kael stepped aside, caught his arm, and turned him into the cart's wooden side. One cuff snapped around the guard's own wrist.Kael secured the other end to the cart rail. “Stay still.”The leader reached for the staff on the ground. Kael put his foot on it, then pushed him backward into the shelter. The man fell across a stool. Before he could rise, Kael c
Chapter 84 - A Different Face
Evelyn drew the prison list closer. “How do you get there without Varyn knowing you're coming?”Kael looked across the table. “I enter as someone he isn't waiting for. First, I find out where he's keeping the others.”Orlan turned over a sheet and drew the road below Black Sky Peak. He marked the city gates, then stopped with his pen above the inner walls.Orlan shook his head. “I can show you the outer streets. Inside the stronghold, too much may have changed.”Kael pointed to a bend outside the city. “The old transit platform?”Orlan added a mark beside it. “Still there when I last passed. Nobody was using it.”Kael had traveled through that platform often enough to remember its exact position. With his core restored, he could reach it using his own travel spell. He explained what he needed: a prepared departure point here, a check of the landing place, and a fixed mark there for his return.Evelyn tapped the drawing. “So you can't simply appear inside the prison.”Kael shook his he
Chapter 83 - The Home He Returns To
Kael kept his hand beside the message stone until its light stopped flashing. He saved Varyn's reply, then played it back while Evelyn recorded it on her phone.Below the platform, the last stretcher reached the passage. One of the medical workers raised a hand to signal that the way was clear.Evelyn put her phone away. “Can you tell where he sent that from?”Kael shook his head. “Not from his voice.”He wanted to follow it anyway. Hearing Varyn speak as though those people belonged to him made it difficult to turn away. Then a patient coughed below, and Kael looked toward the open passage.He left the stone and went down the steps.Drev stood between two officers, his hands secured behind him. Kael kept his spell around the commander's arms as they crossed. On the other side, Bureau officers took charge of him and the captured soldiers already brought through.Evelyn stayed beside Drev until the receiving officers checked his restraints. “Keep him separate from the others. His weapo
Chapter 82 - Bow to the Man You Betrayed
Drev pressed the firing lever.Light burst from the metal ring and swept across the yard. Kael raised a barrier wide enough to cover Evelyn, the officers, and the passage behind them. The blast struck its center with a roar that shook dust from the hall's roof.Kael held his ground. Through the white glare, he could still see Drev standing at the controls above the entrance.Evelyn drew the nearest officer behind Kael's protection. “Is the passage safe?”Kael kept his eyes on the platform. “Yes. Keep everyone behind me.”The blast spread across his barrier without reaching its far side. Beyond the open passage, the people rescued from the yard remained in the school's care. Kael had no need to pull power away from their protection to defend himself.Above him, the rows of power stones dimmed. The weapon's first shot ended, leaving dust hanging over the yard.Drev worked the lever again. Light began moving from the stones into the base of the ring.Kael knew where it would go next. Two
Chapter 81 - He Does Not Go Alone
Evelyn pulled a chair toward the table. “Show me where they're being held.”Kael reached for a sheet of paper, but Elena had not released his other hand. He turned toward her. She was studying his face, then the shoulder he had been careful with for days.He kept his voice low. “It's still me. My mother left that crystal for me. It repaired my core.”Elena touched his arm. “And the rest of you?”Kael rolled his shoulder without pain. “That too.”She let go, though she stayed beside him as he drew the prison yard. He marked the storehouse, the long hall, and the watch posts near the road. His power remained close within his body. Nothing in the teaching room shook or moved unless he wanted it to.Evelyn leaned over the drawing. “How many prisoners?”Kael marked the water trough. “Nine in the yard. More inside, but I couldn't count them. Some need help walking. Drev commands the soldiers. He's already seen me.”Evelyn studied the space between the hall and the storehouse. “Can you prote
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