Liliana - Ghost Scouts 3

  She snorted, and they trudged their way closer still. As they walked, each summoned a small flock of minions—tiny fey, in Jace’s case, with the power to make themselves invisible, while Liliana called up a handful of translucent spirits—and ordered them on ahead.

  They learned much as they neared the looming structure. It was not, as they had supposed, perfectly circular; rather, they had appeared toward the back of what turned out to be a crescent, shallower on the inner curve than the outer, and at the tips than the rear. The tower emerged from the highest point, at the apex of the crescent’s bend. And it was not, in fact, constructed of a single sheet of metal, though the individual pieces were so perfectly fitted together that it might as well have been.

  But most important and most discouraging, neither the mages nor their unearthly minions could find anything resembling a door. It seemed very much as though the structure had simply been sealed up during its construction and left that way.

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Agents of Artifice, Chapter 27