Lord Protector Calyx turned to his brother, and Veyris noted silently that his face was older than he remembered, and his eyes were harder. But there was something in them that had not been there before, something that might have been anticipation.
"My city is a strange place, Veyris, and even though you have seen just the surface does not mean you understand it all. I know you want to probe the secrets about what lies below the ground, but you are going about it in the wrong manner, because I knew what was coming, long being warned about it."
