“Simply that with them in hiding, people with powers like ours are the only protectors who remain.”
Marish rolled his eyes, and Vipin sighed.
“I’m sorry,” he said. “It’s an old argument, and I’m not going to change your mind anytime soon. What were you telling me about Naam’s sister?”
“I didn’t tell you her name originally because it didn’t seem right. But she is Itana. That Itana. And she’s lost even more of her memories.”
Vipin understood at once.
“So, when you came back from the elephant preserve and left straightaway for the Borderlands, you were following her?”
“My sources told me she might be targeted in the Borderlands. I had hoped that I could get her and the others out without all the fuss and media attention, but of course that didn’t happen.”
Vipin’s lips twisted into a
