Kai left Naia to practice by herself in the yard while he entered the estate.
After returning to his room, Kai didn't rest.
The door to the attic clicked shut behind him, and he stood silently in the shadows for a long minute. His muscles ached faintly from hours of training his student, but there was something else nagging at him. A thought he couldn't ignore.
Two days ago, Graham mentioned she'd bent a silver goblet in half with an accidental gravity spike. It hadn't been dramatic, just a flicker of force, but it was uncontrolled. Dangerous.
Graham assumed it was emotional turbulence. A reaction to stress. Her "becoming a woman", as he put it. But the timing of it, coupled with the palace's increasingly dense magical atmosphere, made him suspicious.
Something was happening around them.
Kai descended the stairs to the lower halls of the Eldridge estate and sought out the girl's room.
