"It was little bursts here and there and they left little ripples. It felt dulled, like it was being suppressed. Now, of course, I know you had been, by your talisman. One evening, on November the nineteenth, there was an intense burst. It overwhelmed me, and the ripples it produced were more like shock waves. You had come alive and like a beacon, like a lighthouse in vast darkness, I could now find you. I had no idea until that point that you were a person, but it turned out, Erebus did and he immediately instructed me to go to you. I knew exactly where you were, so I put in a transfer to Exton immediately."
I regard him skeptically for a moment.
"Why did you need to find me? What does this other hybrid want with me?" I ask, finishing my coffee. Will looks as though he'd rather not ans
