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"I--I don’t know exactly hohy it happened," she replied "We were in Blackveil and--"

The professor blanched Cade raised an eyebrow, his large hands gripping the arht he’d puncture the leather

"What did I say?" Karigan asked

"Blackveil," the professorit naht, with the secret histories versus "true history"

"We did not mean to interrupt, my dear," the professor said "Please continue"

She did and found herself explaining how she and a party of Sacoridians and Eletians crossed the D’Yer Wall into Blackveil to observe the status of the forest after a thousand years of being closed off from the rest of the world and subject to the influence of Mornhavon the Black Eventually they found theenthyne, legendary bastion of the Eletians ere conquered by Mornhavon long ago She did not speak in great detail of the trials she and her coht in the telling, but she told enough that Cade’s and the professor’s expressions were rapt and suffused with a the looking enthyne, she said, "It was a true object of ht with a shudder, re how she’d raised the h it and saw the strands of ti and unraveling She’d held a million, million possibilities in her hands, the power to manipulate the fabric of the universe She’d rejected that power and smashed theit, and the next thing she knew, she found herself trapped in a sarcophagus at a circus, from which she escaped into Mill City and Cade Harlowe’s hands

"So that’s why you asked htens me as to how Rudus," the professorto discredit him, by the way"

The twoto digest Karigan’s story She plucked nervously at the he a more definitive response

Cade was the first to react He turned to the professor and said, "You can’t possibly believe all this"

"Part of me finds it extremely difficult," the professor admitted "But the past was filled onders that defy rational explanation"

Cade snorted "And you believe this thing about the le" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>