Kingdom of Ash

Aedion at last set down the letter. Took a
long breath as he frowned toward the watery
gray light leaking through the bank of
windows high on the wall.
Down the table, the weight of Lysandra’s
stare pressed on him. Yet she remained where
she was.
“It’s from Kyllian,” Aedion said hoarsely.
“Morath’s troops made landfall at the coast—
at Eldrys.”
Ren swore. Murtaugh stayed silent. Aedion
kept seated, since his knees seemed unlikely
to support him. “He destroyed the city. Turned
it to rubble without unleashing a single
troop.”
Why the dark king had waited this long,
Aedion could only guess.
“The witch towers?” Ren asked. Aedion
had told him all Manon Blackbeak had
revealed on their trek through the Stone