TWENTY-THREE
TELL ME THAT MILO IS insane.
The silence that met my question was disconcerting.
Tell me he isn’t right.
Theo looked thoughtful. Everyone else, myself included, looked stunned to the point of insensitivity.
Tell me I don’t have to choose between your soul and the continued existence of the whole, friggin’ Court.
The existence of the Court is not your responsibility. The present hierarchy, however...
There has to be some other sacrifice I can make. This can’t be the only thing.
Theo’s silence was incredibly unnerving.
Theo? Surely there must be something else?
I don’t know, he said at last, sorrow filling my mind. I don’t know enough about Dark Ones to know if just any sacrifice will work, but I suspect... His sigh wrung my heart. I suspect, sweetling, that it is that
