Astrid’s POV

No one in Blackthorn knew how much I truly saw, to them i was useful only in the way one keeps an old map, only consulted when the path becomes unknown, they called me insightful, a bridge between territories, so much nonsense to make me feel good about what I knew I was to them. But they never suspected that I wasn’t merely advising on Hartmann matters, I had been there over and over again, I wasn’t invited there but I wasn’t noticed either by anyone who mattered, I ...