Krays was nowhere in sight, but raised voices could be heard coming from beyond an open door in the far wall. They ran for it, bursting into another room lined with bookshelves to find Krays — and Galywis. Krays had the old man by the shoulders and was shaking him.
‘Why are you still here!’ Krays was shouting. ‘How are you still here! If you’ve interfered with my constructs…!’
Galywis, oddly, was howling with laughter. ‘B-beautiful devices!’ he managed around his mirth. ‘Never saw better!’ He laughed even harder, and Eva felt a knot of tension ease inside her. Galywis’s amusement suggested that she’d been right: he had indeed tampered with Krays’s constructs.
‘Drop the invis,’ she said to Tren, not bothering to lower her voice.
A moment later Tren and Ori appeared beside her. A glance
