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"Reo"

Many questions rose in histhe circuitous route around the Citadel Only when Valek was satisfied no one followed thean stayed with the horses while Valek checked the rooent waited inside Valek’s

"Report," Valek ordered

"All quiet No trouble," theroo Tell the others"

"Yes, sir"

Valek fetched Teegan Once the boy was comfortable, he said, "Tell me why you were alone in Irys’s tower and spare no details"

"Do you know about the Theobroma in the Keep’s food?"

"Yes"

"Then you knohy everyone went basically crazy, believing the Coht Convinced of the danger, groups of arrisons until only a few support staff reht it was because I’lesson, she deteric, even with Theobroma in my body Just like her and Master Bain"

Valek jumped on that bit of news "Masters Irys and Bain aren’t affected?"

"No"

"Then why did they follow Bruns’s orders?"

"Because they didn’t have anyone else but ht it better to pretend to be influenced and gather information until you and Aunt Yelena planned a way to stop Bruns’s Cartel"

Such trust Valek hoped not to disappoint the Yelena--would come first And then it hit hirinned "I have to take the test first, but this kind of confiran was only fourteen years old Which reo hoht the Cartel would be watching them, and it would be suspicious if I showed up there Master Irys destroyed all record of my enrollot everyone Notwith her, and she told icians would soon be under attack"

"So when Irys and Bain left"