The search took two days. Every building inspected. Every room catalogued. Every hidden space mapped and cleared.

We found nothing.

"It's driving me insane," I told Darius on the second night. We were reviewing search reports in the war room, surrounded by maps and notes that told us exactly nothing useful. "Either there's no weapon and someone's playing mind games, or it's hidden so well we'll never find it."

"Or we're looking in the wrong place." He tapped the academy map. "We've searched ...