Echoes of the Forgotten

Previously

…He looked around the forgotten corner, its silence now heavy with unspoken secrets. He was alone, yet he felt a distinct sense of being watched, of unseen eyes observing his every move. The stakes had suddenly become terrifyingly clear. He was holding a piece of a puzzle, a key to a history that someone, or something, desperately wanted to keep hidden. And he knew, with a chilling certainty, that he was now a target. The quiet life he cherished, the predictable comfort of his dusty archives, was gone. Elias’s legacy, and perhaps his own destiny, lay in the swirling lines of that cryptic map.