MORIA
A body.
I can still hear the words echoing around in my head.
Ricocheting off the bony walls of my skull until I can’t help but think about it whether I wanted to or not.
They had found a body.
But Axe hadn’t been sure who it was yet.
It could be the Protector called Gladiolus, or one of the others that were missing.
Perhaps it was even someone completely unrelated to the missing Protectors.
But whoever it was, the presence of a body was a sirens blaring cry of alarm.
Because based on what I was able to pick from Axe and Tristen’s conversation before Tristen leveled his “I thought I told you to stay back” glare at me, bodies did not just turn up in Xesperia.
Ever.
Axe still hadn’t even been a hundred percent certain if it was true or not that it was a body that had been fo
