I'd seen a lot of things at Dominion Academy that I'd had to file away and not react to in public.

This was different.

The gap in the stone was narrow, but it was enough. Below us, the red-rune corridor stretched in both directions, wider than it had any right to be for a building that wasn't supposed to have this much basement.

The doors were heavy and reinforced, each one sealed with the same carved symbol I didn't recognize from any bloodline text I'd studied.

And between the doors, ...