Raziel found Zorya waiting for him outside his room long before dawn.
She stood in the dark hallway clutching her bag against her chest and she shifted her weight from foot to foot.
She didn't say a word when Raziel opened the door, she just grabbed his sleeve and pulled him toward the stairs leading to the East Basement.
Raziel followed her down the dark steps and didn't ask questions.
They reached the heavy iron door of the Inscription workshop and Zorya slid the bolt open.
The room was fully illuminated.
Raziel stopped in the doorway and stared at the walls.
The ancient runes of the Primordial Pantheon he had activated weeks ago hadn't faded back into the brickwork at all.
They glowed with a steady silver light and they had changed entirely.
The original geometric patterns had expanded and grown and multiplied across the stone.
New symbols covered the previously blank sections of the walls and crawled up toward the ceiling.
