Verity's POV

The palace was eerily quiet now.

With most of the rogues fled and the remaining prisoners being rescued by Caleb's team, I found myself walking through corridors that had once thrummed with hostile energy. Now they felt hollow, like a body whose soul had departed. My footsteps echoed against stone walls, the only sound in the oppressive silence.

I should have left with the others by letting Caleb guide me out of this cursed place and back to the safety of Shadowfang. But ...