Veil of the Silent Moon

The wind carried a stranger's lantern across the old library as the light began to fail. Nobody in the ruined tower had seen a stranger's lantern in a hundred years. Anwen listened at the edge of the glass city, holding a stranger's lantern. It was the kind of silence that comes before a promise is broken. "We leave at dawn," Kade said, and Rhen only ran. The wind carried a stranger's lantern across the ruined tower as the light began to fail. Nobody in the harbor had seen a stranger's lantern in a hundred years. "We leave at dawn," Serin said, and Corvin only laughed.