Seraphina's continued research into the failed counterseal attempts led her somewhere Victor hadn't expected, a discovery that arrived three days after Reyes's visit and complicated an already difficult situation considerably further.
"I need you to see this," she said, finding him during a rare break between training sessions, her expression carrying a particular tension that immediately put him on alert.
She led him to a secured section of the archive wing he hadn't previously accessed, files considerably more restricted than the sealed records she'd found weeks earlier, requiring clearance Corvin had apparently authorized on her behalf given the urgency of the ongoing crisis.
"The failed counterseal attempts," she said, spreading a new set of documents across the table. "I mentioned the Circle didn't understand why they failed. That wasn't entirely accurate. There's more to the story."
