THE BLACK PRINCE What had once been my solitary quest to protect Po was now ours. Po was going to be the new Lightning Knight, so he would need all the help we could give him. Yokel would tutor him with his studies at the Institute, and Windrunner would mentor him even further with special access I gave her to the Shears’s restricted books. Of course, no section in the giant library was off limits to my family, given our history. I would continue with his Carpenter training, and Roc and Pathfinder would act as his personal bodyguards day and night. We weren’t taking any chances with the Spider’s Web out there. And there was Ridhan, who also wanted to become the Lightning Knight. I just didn’t know how he planned to do it. I knew it had to do with me, and probably that Elven-sounding code

