Three weeks.
The original six-week survival plan just shattered into a million useless pieces.
Mastering the fifth Gift of Anchor Blood and the sixth Gift of Devourer in twenty-one days was mathematically impossible.
Raziel had to drop that objective right now.
He needed to focus entirely on defending the academy against the Silencer and rescuing the Oracle from the Inquisition before Mordecai burned her alive at Three Crosses.
Raziel turned around and faced his team.
Zorya, Lucian, Lara, Caius, and Gideon stood in the workshop and waited for his report.
"Mordecai arrives in three weeks," Raziel stated. "He brings the Silencer and he brings Mirael in chains."
Lucian kicked a wooden chair across the room.
CRASH!
The chair hit the brick wall and splintered into pieces.
Lucian ran his hands through his hair and paced across the dusty floor, the arrogant noble finally recognized they were completely outmatched.
