Page 297 of Sky’s Edge

And now, considering the state of Berg Castle, it was undeniable.

And mega.

It was safe to say, both Tanyn and I were still coming to terms with the new normal of the castle.

Neither of us understood it, because obviously, all the furniture and fittings had not been the same back when the curse was settled on the structure, so it would stand to reason they had not been magicked.

But all of it was different.

And not different in the sense that just the colors of it had changed.

It was different…

Entirely.

Actually, it looked a lot like what was in the citadel, except more majestic and less worn.

And there was a good deal more of it.

This was not my aesthetic at all.

But Tanyn seemed made for it.

It was all kinds of freaky.

Though you couldn’t deny, it was real. It was there. The other stuff was gone (even the art, which I could not turn my mind to those priceless works being lost in some magical ether, or I’d lose it).

As of now, however, we’d had the storm (or, another one), and we were in a calm.

And as for me, I was learning to get all I could out of these calm times, because we still had no real clue what was going on.

Except all evidence suggested it was way bigger than we expected.

And a whole hells of a lot scarier.

Thus, I knew there were more storms on the horizon.

So I was going to suck as much out of the calm times as I could.

“That didn’t give us a lot of info,” Tanyn complained toward the screen.

“Were you expecting a lot of info?” I asked.

He turned his head toward me. “No. Which is why we’ve got a meeting with an expert from SinBaal University tomorrow. Aleksei is holoing in.”

“Can I be in on that?”

“Of course.”

Right.

So there was that.

Time to hold on to the calm.

“Do you think we can fit in a quickie before the others get here?”

His eyes hooded but his lips said, “First, we’ve had a busy day. We haven’t been able to get into it, so we have to talk about whether you’re upset with me or not.”