Chapter Twenty-One I look at the document in my hands and the words rearrange themselves into the shape of what they mean. Eli has been talking to Aldric every week for four months. Aldric told him where to find me. The call last night. I was sitting in the dark and a man said his name was Eli and said he had been looking for me for twenty years and I believed him because he sounded like a man telling the truth and maybe he was. Maybe he is. Maybe a person can be telling the truth and still be working a different angle at the same time. I have been in this territory for less than two weeks and I have already learned that lesson three times. I fold the document. I look at Donovan. "Why are you telling me this," I say. "Because I told you Dara was going somewhere that would not use

