Unexpected Rise of Leonard Storm

Chapter 119

Matilda ignored him. She hadn’t told Jeremy about Eleanor ’s latest demand to uncover the king’s source of power, because she knew what Jeremy ’s response would be: listen to the dead queen. But the Dark Knight s seemed so connected to everything, somehow—even to that eye riddle and this stupid trick wall. And perhaps if she learned how to use them, then she could unlock the iron door in the library and find some answers beyond it. “Maybe … maybe just the basics?”

Jeremy smiled. “The basics are the hardest part.”

Usefulness aside, it was a forgotten secret language, a system for accessing a strange power. Who wouldn’t want to learn about it? “Morning lessons instead of our walk, then?”

Jeremy beamed, and Matilda felt a twinge of guilt for not telling her about the catacombs as the princess said, “Of course.”

When they left, Jeremy spent a few minutes studying Mort—mostly asking him questions about his creation spell, which he claimed to have forgotten, then claimed was too priva