But for tonight, Rohan decided, he would teach Aryan the Mauryan Empire from a library book. The old-fashioned way. The seed that didn’t need to be stolen.
The walls were closing in. He wasn’t being chased by monsters. He was being chased by the death of a thousand cuts—shame, exposure, the collapse of his reputation. The “runner” wasn’t a person; it was an unstoppable data leak.