Eryndor's thoughts churned like a storm. His breathing had yet to settle from what had happened in the vault, from the voice that now whispered at the edges of his mind. A tether, Selene had called it. A binding that would consume him unless they found a way to sever it.
And now she was telling him that the only person who had ever resisted something like this—Aedric Voss—had been erased from history.
The night air was heavy as they moved through the empty streets of Blackspire, keeping to the shadows. The city, once a beacon of order and discipline, now felt like a cage. Eryndor's hand still trembled from what had happened back in the vault.
Selene kept her voice low. "The Order never speaks of him. They wiped his name from the archives, erased all records of his existence. But I've spent years tracking his movements. And I know where they buried him."
Eryndor exhaled slowly. "Buried?"
Selene's expression was grim. "Not in the ground. In a prison that's worse than death."
Eryndor's pulse quickened. "Where?"
She met his eyes. "The Hollow Asylum."
A silence stretched between them.
The Hollow Asylum was a place even the Order spoke of in hushed tones. A fortress where those deemed too dangerous to execute were abandoned to rot—forgotten by time, their names stripped from the world. No one left the Asylum. No one survived the Asylum.
And if Aedric Voss was there, then that meant one thing:
The Order had feared him.
"You seek a dead man," the voice inside him murmured.
Eryndor clenched his fists. "Then we go."
Selene hesitated. "Once we leave Blackspire, we can't come back. Not as we are. If the Order realizes what we're doing—"
"They'll hunt us," Eryndor finished. "They already will, once they find out what happened in that vault."
Selene nodded. "Then we ride at dawn."
Eryndor swallowed, his body still cold from the remnants of whatever force had bound itself to him. The voice, the presence—it was waiting. Watching.
They didn't have much time.
And if Aedric Voss really had the answers, they had to get to him before it was too late.