CHAPTER 7 Stix sat at his desk reading. He was just about finished and was happy to see not much had changed. It amazed him at how good it felt to be doing what he had done for so many years, yet he couldn’t really enjoy any of it. He missed Kornell. Hell, he even missed Edmond… well, he missed hearing his voice at least. What Kornell didn’t know… s**t, what no one knew was how many nights when Stix would hear Edmond come into the castle, Stix would stay out of sight just to hear him talk to Alex, or whoever might be with him at the time. Stix would listen in and imagine it was him that Edmond was talking to… that it was him he would banter with like he did with Dudley. It was him… Gods, he was pathetic, sitting here daydreaming when he had things to do, knowing he needed to fix this iss

