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Chapter 246 - Red Handed (2)

The next chamber wasn't locked.

Just runed..

Subtle, minimal. A displacement veil layered in old elven notation, sloppy, but enough to trick eyes at a glance. It didn't stop him. His presence slid through it without resistance, absorbed by the folds of darkness riding his skin.

He pressed a palm lightly to the wood.

Listened.

Voices.

Low. Not Caldrisian.

He moved through.

The room beyond was no longer part of the estate's formal structure. This was retrofitted, a long stone gallery beneath the southern tower, repurposed into a workspace. 

Crates, mana stabilizers, glowing chains half-wrapped in cloth. Arcane devices too refined for local nobility.

At the far end, two figures.

One was a guard, nervous, underdressed, not magical.

The other—

Lindarion stopped moving.

Not Caldrisian. Not even local.

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