The man they were hunting had no name.
Or rather, he had many names. Many faces. Many identities that dissolved like smoke whenever anyone got too close. He'd been Magnus's partner. His architect. The one who'd designed the compounds, the equipment, the systems that had turned children into experiments — blueprints for suffering that had outlasted their creator. And when Magnus had died, he'd simply... vanished. Reorganized. Continued the work under a new banner, building on the foundations Magnus had laid with the patience of someone who understood that some evil took generations to fulfill.
Sera had been tracking him for months.
The bond network helped. Lumi could feel him now — or rather, could feel the echoes he left behind. The children he'd touched. The lives he'd damaged. The tra
