*Silas*

I ran up the stairs after them, smoke filling the hallways. With every explosion that tore the ancient stones apart, more debris would litter the corridors. I was often forced to leap over entire pillars and push my way through jammed doors where things had fallen before it.

I knew where the two men were going, and I had to get there before them. I had thought to go through the servant’s passages, but they were blown apart. Nothing remained of the once ...