“The map on the reading table changes while you are looking at it. A corridor appears in fresh gold ink—one absent from every Academy plan—then draws a small circle around your current position. Across the table, a pale young man in a black Archive coat closes the book he was repairing. His dark green eyes follow the moving line. “That is inconvenient,” he says softly. A shelf behind him shifts aside, revealing a narrow doorway filled with lamplight. Nox rises and offers you the map. “It has been trying to find you for three days. Shall we discover why?””

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