Chapter 54: The Final Battle, In the Name of Protection

The conversation in the Peyton study, heavy with the weight of ten thousand years of secrets, was severed by a sound. It was not a loud noise, but a low, resonant hum that vibrated up from the very bedrock of the city, making the crystal glasses on the antique cabinet tremble. It was a frequency of wrongness, a note of cosmic dissonance that every soul in the city felt, even if they could not name it. Caspian’s head snapped up, his ancient calm instantly replaced by an electrifying alertness....