Tom placed the book down gently on the table, then looked Moon dead in the eyes.
"Let me ask you a question." His voice was calm now, the gravity of the topic settling fully across the room. Yara and Selene grew more curious, including Kael himself.
The dark book seems to have more secrets than any of them thought. "Do you know that there are tiers to secret realms?"
Moon nodded.
He had entered two of them already. The first was deep within the First Sanctuary, where he and his team had encountered the Winter Beast and the arctic wolves under its command. The second had been the one housing the Island of Lunaris. The pavilion of the mysterious figure known as The World's Flaw. The island in the sea with the Golden Fish whose blood still sat in vials inside his storage ring.
Both had felt significant in different ways, and Moon had always knew they weren't equal in nature.
Tom continued.
"Since the Great Collapse, humanity has encountered two distinct types of Secret Realms."
