Veyris began walking towards the entrance of the tunnel, his mind already shifting from investigation to analysis. The records Nathan had retrieved would fill in the gaps, would tell him what the stones could not.
What he could not have known was that if he was not interrupted, he would have touched one of the statues that Elias had buried the bodies of one of his hunts, and he would have also discovered that the power that should be in that statue was gone…. And this was not the only thing he had missed.
In this situation, Veyris's fastidious character had worked against him. Due to his desire not to miss anything, he had started from the depths of the tunnels and worked his way up, all so that he would be able to accurately determine that nothing had gone wrong with the batteries of power beneath this city.
