Later that night, I stood alone in the South Side City Park, on the edge of the pond where I used to feed the ducks when I was a kid. It was almost pitch black tonight due to the heavy clouds overhead, though the weatherman said he didn’t think it would rain tonight. Not that I believed him. Those weather people were right as often as they were wrong. Not that it mattered, anyway, because I was only in the park to meet someone who would take me to see Lord Taranas, regardless of the weather.
Earlier that day, after I left the hospital, I contacted Lord Taranas through our mental connection. I told him that he didn’t need to keep sending men after me, that I would willingly come to him, wherever he was, and that I wouldn’t resist. I didn’t mention my plans to confront him and kill him, but
