Chapter 84. Ian

DOVE

The following days were more relaxed, like the calm after a long storm. Clarisa was improving and overcoming the traumas she had suffered during her captivity.

I learned about all the things that had happened outside the castle from the stories of Clarisa and Jacob, who had an overwhelming amount of information. There were still many loose ends, and the cult must be moving their pieces to plan their next strike.

By thwarting the purification ritual of the prisoners, it was impossible to know for sure what they were planning next. The tunnel that Jacob mentioned remained present in my thoughts, and with each suspicion, I reminded myself that it was something important that I shouldn’t forget.

“We’re pretty screwed,” Jason said, who was accompanying me in the library while trying to read a bit about the city’s architecture. “It seems like there are hundreds of tunnels, even under every home. People used to build them in case they had to flee from a situati