Chapter 349

The soft knock on the door drew my attention from the spread maps over the table.

“Come in,” I said, my voice even, though unease churned in my chest.

The door creaked open, and Piper stepped inside, her face pale, her shoulders tight. Immediately, I knew that something was off.

“Piper,” I began, rising. “What is it?”

She hesitated, holding a folded paper tightly in her hands.

“I found this,” she whispered. “It was hidden in that cache we dug up. I think… I think it’s some sort of code.”

I felt my heart quicken with excitement as I took the paper from her, the symbols etched within both strange, yet somehow all too familiar. My fingers shook slightly with a mixture of fear and something else as I turned it over.

“What’s it say?” I asked, my tone sharper than I meant.

entirely sure,” Piper admitted. “But it mentions something about someone inside the

could unravel everything.” I paced the room, my mind racing. “We have to

set.

worked with Calla’s network before. He’ll

at Piper and she rushed out and came in with Rowan soon after, then Warrick burst in, looking stormy. “Luna,” he said, casting a dark look at Piper. “We

agitated, but I can’t really entertain this right now. “Warrick, not

insisted, nodding toward Piper

Rowan.”

won’t let me work in peace. I looked up

Rowan, attend to something else for the moment. Piper

his eyes flicking to

went out.

left, Warrick walked up to me, “I am sorry Luna.. but I

don’t know your problem, we were just working. We need Rowan’s

help you out,” Warrick said as

spread the coded paper across the table, pulling out old cipher books from the shelves. “Fine then, figure this out first,” I said to him

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