Nathaniel “It’s still not too late to do something,” Lave mind links me. “Nate, please think this over. “ “No, I am going to do this. I’ll go there. Whatever happens, right?” He doesn’t say anything but I can sense his worry, seeping through the mind- link. “This will be disastrous. “ he mutters. I hear Kai whose anger is evident through his tone. “I can just kill Sirius and be done with this. “ Kai says, “Or I can force him to confess everything.” “Not a bad idea, but you are forgetting something” Lave counters, “He never lets you near him for this exact reason. He is way smarter than this, we’ve already been through this. “ “Damn it. There has to be something we can use, or…” Kai continues searching for ways to avoid this, but there’s no going back. I brace myself and head to

