Kalev’s POV

I entered the archives office with Endrick. It was late at night. He’d come to my door at roughly 3am. Senna had been fast asleep. He apologized for coming so late, but there was something I needed to see, he told me.

Inside the office, he glanced past me. He’d found a corridor. It was behind one of the shelves, a secret entrance.

“You’re sure about this?” he asked. “We don’t know where this leads.”

“No,” I said. “But we’re doing it anyway.”

He chuckled.

“Good,” he said. “I’d hate to think we’d started making sensible decisions now.”

We entered the corridor and came to another door. The...