Reborn Luna Hears Every Lie novel · Chapter 33 of 40

Chapter 33: The Price of Her Answer

Sera turned the open page toward the bench and did not let go of the corner of it.

'You named a second register,' she said. 'So name the door.'

Vessa's hand went to the cord at her waist. The wax impression hung there, grey and thumbed, and she closed her fingers over it the way a woman checks that a coin is still in her pocket.

Eln set her pen down. 'The witness will answer the question.'

'Which door,' Vessa said, 'to what.'

'To the archive,' Sera said. 'The route you walked when the transport was arranged. The phrase you gave at the counter. You carried a living infant out of Ashfen Crossing and paid a man to move it, so you know the way in, and you know what you said at the door to be let through it.'

The gallery had gone quiet in the particular way it went quiet when a name was about to be attached to a thing. Sera heard it under the silence, the low amber shimmer rising off the benches, every wolf in the room thinking the same sentence in different words.

She is going to make Vessa give up the archive.

Good.

Sera kept her face still. They could think it. She needed them to think it. What she was actually doing was smaller and colder than any of them had worked out yet, and she intended to keep it that way.

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