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There was no fifth chamber.
The Archives did not have one, or if it did, Keth'serai had not found it in four centuries of using the building, and she had stopped believing in things she couldn't locate. She led Tesiv back through the fourth room, through the predecessor's chamber, through the lineage room, back into the long internal passage where the marks of two thousand years of Leth read like a sentence written in a language that took a century to learn to parse.
He was quiet through all of it. The quality of his quiet had changed across the morning.…
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