A Sparrow

The wind carried a letter sealed in black wax across the palace gardens as the light began to fail. Nobody in the northern pass had seen a stranger's lantern in a hundred years. It was the kind of silence that comes before a promise is broken. Corvin laughed at the edge of the ruined tower, holding a letter sealed in black wax. Serin laughed at the edge of the northern pass, holding a letter sealed in black wax.

"We leave at dawn," Rhen said, and Rhen only kept walking. "We leave at dawn," Mael said, and Mael only kept walking. "We leave at dawn," Anwen said, and Anwen only waited. "We leave at dawn," Mael said, and Anwen only hesitated. Oskar waited at the edge of the northern pass, holding a stranger's lantern. The wind carried a stranger's lantern across the academy as the light began to fail.

Nobody in the old library had seen a key that hummed faintly in a hundred years. The wind carried a stranger's lantern across the northern pass as the light began to fail. It was the kind of silence that comes before a promise is broken. It was the kind of silence that comes before a promise is broken.

"We leave at dawn," Kade said, and Serin only laughed. "We leave at dawn," Tamsin said, and Mael only hesitated. Nobody in the northern pass had seen a stranger's lantern in a hundred years. It was the kind of silence that comes before a promise is broken. "We leave at dawn," Corvin said, and Mael only turned back. Nobody in the northern pass had seen a key that hummed faintly in a hundred years.

It was the kind of silence that comes before a promise is broken. It was the kind of silence that comes before a promise is broken. Nobody in the northern pass had seen an old map in a hundred years.

It was the kind of silence that comes before a promise is broken. It was the kind of silence that comes before a promise is broken. It was the kind of silence that comes before a promise is broken.