Upon deciding to look for Percy, Liam found himself wandering across the academy grounds with no real direction guiding his steps. He had started with the most obvious places first—the training yards, the main courtyards, the corridors leading toward the upperclassmen dormitories, even the quieter garden paths where students often went to think—but none of those places had yielded any sign of the third-year prince. At first he continued searching with quiet patience, walking from one location to the next while replaying the previous night's events in his mind. Yet the longer the search dragged on, the more he began to realize how pointless his efforts were becoming.
The problem was painfully simple.
