Chapter 263: The Raven Who Almost Died, The King Who Arrived, and The Children Who Are Now in Jail
Rin heard it before she saw it.
She had been making her way toward the office rather slowly, because she was Rin, and rushing was not something she did unless the situation absolutely demanded it—when the sound reached her.
A scream.
High, sharp, and unmistakably Thalira's.
Rin stopped walking.
Then she transformed.
The shift was immediate—one moment a raven demon in her usual form, the next a raven in the truest sense, black wings spreading as she launched herself upward and angled toward the corridor that led to the office.
She flew fast.
The closer she got, the more she heard.
The grinding. The rushing water. The sound of something large moving through a space it had no business being in. The crack of what had been walls and the absence of what had been silence.
