Chapter 59 · Lia, don't touch it!

I ran to the oath stone.

Its surface had split along the middle. The glowing letters slid through the crack like trapped insects. I pressed my fingers above the line marked THIRD WITNESS.

The stone burned me.

Calian roared behind me. The sound hit my back as the hunter threw him across the chamber.

"Lia, don't touch it!"

"You don't get to make that call!"

"I do when your life is chained to mine!"

"Then stop treating me like baggage!"

The crack widened under my hand.

A voice whispered from inside the stone.

Not Sevryn.

Not Calian.

A woman's voice, thin and shaking.

"I was there."

My fingers froze.

"Who are you?" I asked.

The hunter slammed Calian into the floor. His blade skidded away.

"Lia!" he shouted.

I pressed harder against the stone. "Tell me your name!"

"They took it."

"Then give me anything. A place. A date. A face."

"The bridge. Blacktide. The night the first tower fell.