'He must know about super lives too, and probably the deeper part involving the River of Paths.'
The thought wasn't reassuring. It was the only explanation that fit the data, and it opened a door onto possibilities Moon didn't want to look at yet.
If the dark organization had figured out the River of Paths' mechanics before the Association did, then their entire operation was built on a foundation nobody else in the kingdom understood.
Ace's impossible growth curve. The bones with unbreakable properties. The confidence to launch an attack that was mathematically losing on every visible metric.
They knew something the rest of the world didn't.
And they were confident enough in that knowledge to bet the entire operation on it.
Moon glanced back at the fight. Alaric and Ace's blades were still ringing against each other in the middle of the battlefield.
