The chamber’s violet light gutters without warning. Darkness swallows the runes, leaving only the silver chains gleaming across the sealed stone door.
Caldrin stiffens on the final stair, one gauntleted hand hovering near his weapon. From behind the door comes a voice Thorn has not heard in two years.
Sia
The cemetery beneath the city... the plague rises from the catacombs...
The words carry the cadence of Sia, Thorn’s mother, yet no living breath follows them. The echo trembles through the stone as though trapped inside the warning magic.
Caldrin
That voice knows the city cemetery. Was she one of the dead you found there?
The chains snap taut across the door, tightening with a deep metallic groan. Sia’s echo breaks into a breathless fragment, then vanishes beneath the returning silence.
Caldrin
The seal heard us. Whatever remains beyond it has learned that we are here.
Determine whether Sia's echo reveals a genuine clue about the plague