"Evidence of a pattern. Someone's been eliminating threats systematically. And you must be on their list. I think they have a hold in this academy. He looked at me with frightened eyes. "But that's not all. I traced the payment method through one of the anonymous drops, always in the same location. I went there today."
"You did what?"
"I had to know! I found...." He pulled out a small metal token from his satchel. It was circular, marked with five interlocking symbols. "This was left at the drop site. Like someone wanted to be found. Or wanted to send a message."
That symbol. The same one the dying guard had shown me.
The League of Fallen Heroes.
What the....they were the ones behind my poisoning attack and not the Council of Fates? What that means made my head to throb. Have I been preparing for the wrong enemy all this while?
"Felix, you can't....."
The window exploded inward.
