C5 The man who denied her existence

The rushing water of the underground sluice channel grew louder, its cool mist coating Vespera’s face as she sprinted through the dark drainage tunnel. She kept one arm clamped around the heavy VANCE ledger, her boots splashing through shallow runoff. Behind her, the echoed shouts of the Order’s guards began to fade, swallowed by the cavernous acoustics of the subterranean passages