ALMIRA Days passed and I had made almost no progress. I had searched the archives, to the best of my abilities and what little information I could find, and tried to piece together every strange detail people had given me but it barely gave me anything at all. So many things made no sense and overlooked. The more I searched, the more questions I had. I'm starting to hate my future self for permitting all of this to slip by so easily. I was starting to wonder if I should simply ask Aquil but that thought alone made me grimace. I still couldn't bring myself to trust him. Every time I saw the man he had become, I couldn't reconcile him with the Aquil I remembered. The man in my memories had spent years making sure I knew exactly where I stood beneath him. He had looked at me like I w

