While Jonah and Vanessa were lost the archive room, struggling with an impossible blueprint, the war reached home.
The first victim was a man named General Madsen. He was one of Ironwood's most trusted strategists, a key mind in the new war council. He was found in his study, a room on the top floor of a secure military building.
The room was locked from the inside. The windows were sealed. The advanced security system had not been triggered.
He was just... dead. There were no wounds. No signs of a struggle. The coroner's report was just filled with confused theories: a sudden heart attack, a rare brain aneurysm.
Seraph and Draven stood in the study. The body had already been removed, but the cold feeling of death still hung in the air. The room was exactly as it had been found, a locked-room mystery.
"I don't like this," Draven rumbled. He scanned the walls, the windows, looking for any sign of forced entry. He found nothing. "It's too clean."
