Sabal’s face subtly became masklike. “This isn’t the time for us to talk like this, Riley. I’ve been very tolerant fielding your accusations, veiled or not.”
“I haven’t accused you of anything.”
“Oh yes, you have.”
“Then answer me this…Why did you let me hear what you told Mykol before he left, that he causes the threat to Mylia instead of the Blight?”
“Because it’s true.”
“That he’s responsible for the different Mylias being killed?”
“I’m not certain but I find it likely.”
“You feel that way because of Barinda’s friend?”
His face became stonelike. “Yes.”
“And you said that I remind you of her?”
“A little. Not much.”
“Yet you felt that when I arrived, didn’t you?”
“Like I said, I wasn’t certain.”
“But…I heard that from a different version of you, in a different universe. Not f
